Paradoxes of creativity : examining the creative process through an antenarrative lens

Stierand, Marc and Boje, David M. and Glăveanu, Vlad Petre and Dörfler, Viktor and Haley, Usha C. V. and Feuls, Miriam (2019) Paradoxes of creativity : examining the creative process through an antenarrative lens. The Journal of Creative Behavior, 53 (2). pp. 165-170. ISSN 2162-6057 (https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.224)

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Abstract

Accounts of the creative process tend to be retrospective and implicitly ground the creative act within the person, the mind, the moment, the idea; in doing so, they often miss the larger sociomaterial qualities that can provide us with important insights about the social relationality and playfulness of the creative process. In this article, we examine the creative process through an antenarrative lens that we consider very useful for theorizing the creative process from a cultural and sociomaterial perspective. More specifically, we argue that ‘having an idea’ is a contextualized and embodied process that can be regarded as an antenarrative of the overall creative process. We also discuss how the paradoxical relation between the formative and sudden manifestations of the creative act can be understood through the notion of play.

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Stierand, Marc, Boje, David M., Glăveanu, Vlad Petre, Dörfler, Viktor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8314-4162, Haley, Usha C. V. and Feuls, Miriam;
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