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Fiction, Intuition and Creativity

Studies in Bronte, James, Woolf and Lessing
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This volume is a search for the origins of fiction and for an understanding of how these origins influence the finished work of art. It examines the connection between the creative process and fictional form by discussing how intuitive consciousness provides the environment in which creativity flourishes and how writers make use of intuitive creativity in their novels. Looking first at how the link between intuition and creativity has been explored in philosophy, psychology and aesthetics by thinkers such as Henri Bergson, William James, Carl Jung and Benedetto Croce, the book proceeds to an extended discussion of what novelists reveal about the workings of their creative processes, focusing on the intuitive dimension of aesthetic activity. This includes the role of the unconscious and of emotion, the need for an incubation period before the novel emerges into consciousness, and the sense that characters inhabit the control of their authors.
Angela Hague is Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University. She is the author or editor of numerous works, including Teleparody: Predicting/Preventing the Television Discourse of the Future.
"An outstanding work...Hague's exploration of the connection between intuition and creativity addresses a neglected topic. Her command of philosophical contexts is assured and her readings of the novels are wonderfully Illuminating." "This book will change the view of how these four authors--Bronte, James, Woolf, and Lessing--are read....Hague's style is accessible and the readings of the novels provocative."
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