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Creativity and The Paris Review Interviews: A Discourse Analysis of Famous Writers' Composing Practices centers around a thematic discourse analysis of a 2000-page corpus of Paris Review interviews, focusing on the creative processes of some of the world's most famous fiction-writers and poets. The discourse analysis traces elements of the paradigmatic creative-process model—first insight, preparation, incubation, insight, verification—through the focal artists’ descriptions of their composing practices as embedded in the interview transcripts. That analysis also reveals multiple and significantemergent themes germane to fiction and poetry writing. The ultimate goal of this analysis is to identify patterns relevant to the aforementioned creative-process elements and themes that are suggestive of specific strategies writers can employ to facilitate their own composing acts—whether fictional, poetic, or expository. Such findings will also benefit teachers seeking to facilitate student success in the composition classroom. Such applications to expository writing are bolstered by a thorough treatment of scholarship on intersections between creativity theory and composition theory.
“Using the respected Paris Review Interviews of well-known writers of fiction and nonfiction as a base, Ronda Dively has applied creativity theory to offer thoughtful, qualitative analyses of how writers write and think. The resulting look inside experts’ literate processes offers rich insights for the teaching and learning of writing.” — Alice Horning, Oakland University, US
List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Impetus, Contexts and Methods; 2. Composition through the Lens of Creativity Theory; 3. First Insight, or the Glimmer of Possibility; 4. Preparation, or Research Broadly Conceived; 5. Incubation, or Breaks from Conscious Attention; 6. Insight, or the Eureka Experience; 7. Verification, or Evaluation; 8. Emergent Patterns; 9. Implications for Writing Instruction; Appendix A: Coding Table; Appendix B: List of Cited Paris Review Interviewees; Appendix C: Diagram of Analytical Categories, Subcategories and Themes; References; Index.