Multiple Authorship and the Myth of Solitary Genius

Falconer, Graham; Stillinger, Jack

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“…RAD research can counter cultural myths about creativity, such as the myth that creativity is the gift of a solitary genius whose abilities cannot be scientifically explained (for the US movie industry's role in perpetuating these myths, see Dweck [2006]). For example, Stillinger (1991) challenges "the romantic myth of the author as solitary genius" (p. 203) as a particularly troubling misconception considering that authorship is "complicated and diffuse" (p. 174). If creativity is a rare gift, then some people are born creative, and others are not-a notion contrary to democratic notions of education.…”

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Charting RAD Research as an Orientation to Creativity in Writing Studies

Sarraf

2023

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Writing studies must conduct replicable, aggregable, and data-supported (RAD) research to understand the relationship between creativity and writing, including how writers use creative thinking to generate texts and how environmental factors mediate writers’ engagement with creative thinking. This article traces research on creativity from selected writing studies journals since the 2011 release of The Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing. Through a systematic literature review, the findings show how RAD research supports domain-specific knowledge-building about writers’ creativity, which can help teachers, scholars, and practitioners to understand what counts as originality in writing, how writers produce creative texts, and how educational institutions can teach advanced writing skills that develop students’ creative thinking.

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Charting RAD Research as an Orientation to Creativity in Writing Studies

Sarraf

2023

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“…Also, many of the plays were published without his name given-not necessarily a sign of flawed acknowledgement, neglect or misappropriation, but perhaps a sign of modesty and an indirect signal that the plays are reworking old material with the help of the company and their craft-which tends to get acknowledged on the title pages of early prints in such formulations as: "As it hath been often (with great applause) plaid publiquely, by the right Honourable the L. of 12 For the unseen and mostly women's labour in the Elizabethan playhouse, see Natasha Korda's Labors Lost (2011). 13 I am using the expression solitary genius in the sense of Jack Stillinger (1991). For a more recent treatment of the Romantic cult of the creator, see Maarten Doorman's De romantische orde (The Romantic Order, 2004).…”

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“You have served me well:" The Shakespeare Empire in Central Europe

Drábek

2023

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Shakespeare has often served as an instrument of cultural colonialism. In this essay I argue that the current practice of Shakespeare studies in many ways replicates this pattern. By priming the discourse through Shakespeare, it perpetuates logocentric regimes of knowledge that tend to impose reductive perspectives—such as the binaries of Shakespeare’s original–adaptation and that of the author–adapter, but also scripture–exegesis, London–province or London–Continent, centre–periphery and empire–colonial subjects. Drawing on case studies from five centuries—of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century travelling performers, through eighteenth-century German theatre, to twentieth- and twenty-first-century writing and performance, I argue for a need to revisit the logocentric and colonial epistemology. I call for breaking away from the critical heritage of the “Shakespeare Empire,” for reconceptualising how we use Shakespeare, and for refocusing our critical attentions to the thick descriptions of cultures and crafts that make and host Shakespeare.

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“…Le indagini più recenti intorno all'autorialità (Barbieri-Gregori 2015;Medaglia 2014;Hadjiafxendi-Mackay 2007;Love 2002;Stillinger 1991) hanno moltiplicato le prospettive di lavoro ed evidenziato come, nonostante le pratiche collaborative siano prevalenti nella creazione artistica, la letteratura continui a venir considerata dal punto di vista dell'autore singolo (normalmente di genere maschile) come standard (Angelucci-Kolsky 2022: 342-347). Ciò vale sia per le metodologie della ricerca, sia per le pratiche bibliografiche ad esse sottese (Ozment 2020: 164;Robinson 2011: 25;Stillinger 1991: 202).…”

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Scrivere assieme ai lettori: dialogo e creazione letteraria nella corrispondenza del "Corriere della Sera"

Pellizzato

2023

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Nel gennaio del 1974 il Corriere della Sera inaugura una rubrica multiautoriale di corrispondenza con i lettori, invitando il pubblico a contribuire proponendo «altri e nuovi argomenti, anche personali». Fra gli autori coinvolti c’è Goffredo Parise, che nell’ambito della rubrica sviluppa una particolare forma di scrittura collaborativa, dove gli stimoli dialogici travalicano barriere e gerarchie: tra scrittori e lettori, tra stili, tra argomenti personali e idee generali. Questa sperimentazione, innovativa sotto vari aspetti, verrà analizzata nel contesto storico, culturale e sociale del tempo. Ciò permetterà di riflettere anche teoricamente sul ruolo delle forme testuali dialogiche e sul ruolo dei lettori nei meccanismi di innovazione letteraria, alla luce del pensiero di Michail Bachtin. Parole chiave: Corriere della Sera, epistolari, lettori, Goffredo Parise, co-creazione dialogica.

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Multiple Authorship and the Myth of Solitary Genius

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Charting RAD Research as an Orientation to Creativity in Writing Studies

Charting RAD Research as an Orientation to Creativity in Writing Studies

“You have served me well:" The Shakespeare Empire in Central Europe

Scrivere assieme ai lettori: dialogo e creazione letteraria nella corrispondenza del "Corriere della Sera"

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