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In this contemplative short narrative, artist and acclaimed writer Sara Baume charts the daily process of making and writing, exploring what it is to create and to live as an artist.

Beneath the surface we are all connected . . . 'An authentically soothing, powerful, thought-provoker.' MATT HAIG 'On Connection is medicine for these wounded times.' MAX PORTER 'On Connection came to me when I needed it most, and reminded me that the links we have to places, people, words, ourselves, are what keep us alive.' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS Drawing on twenty years' experience as a writer and performer, award-winning poet, rapper and storyteller Kae Tempest explores how and why creativity - however we choose to practise it - can cultivate greater self-awareness and help us establish a deeper relationship to ourselves and the world. Personal, hopeful and written with piercing clarity, On Connection is a meditation on creative connection and call to arms that speaks to a universal yet intimate truth.
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• Preface: Tracking Intentions
• Chapter 1: What Artists Tell Us
• Chapter 2: Some Central Concepts and Theories
• Chapter 3: More Clues from Plato and Aristotle
• Chapter 4: A Model of the Work of Art
• Chapter 5: Structural and Hermeneutic Considerations Involved in Artistic Creation and Aesthetic Judgment
• Chapter 6: Implications Conclusion Bibliography About the Authors.
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Artistic creation has proven remarkably resistant to philosophical analysis. Artists have long struggled to explain how they do what they do, and philosophers have struggled along with them. This study does not attempt to offer a comprehensive account of all creativity or all art. Instead it tries to identify an essential feature of an activity that has been cloaked in mystery for as long as history records. Jeff Mitscherling and Paul Fairfield argue that the process by which art is created has a good deal in common with the experience of the audience of a work, and that both experiences may be described phenomenologically in ways that show surprising affinities with what artists themselves often report.
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• Preface / Joe Fassler
• Light the dark / Aimee Bender
• Leaving the reservation of the mind / Sherman Alexie
• In praise of stubborn gladness / Elizabeth Gilbert
• You've been here before / Stephen King
• Pixel by pixel / Amy Tan
• A friend of the mind / Junot Díaz
• The handshake / William Gibson
• Everything I meant to say / Khaled Hosseini
• Do not think, dream / Andre Dubus III
• I don't know you anymore / Mary Gaitskill
• To infinity and beyond / Michael Chabon
• How I awoke / Walter Mosley
• Stealing plums and counting stones / Jim Crace
• All immigrants are artists / Edwidge Danticat
• Into the deep heart's core / Billy Collins
• Please stop thinking / Kathryn Harrison
• Neglect everything else / David Mitchell
• Dreaming in drag / Roxane Gay
• Ordinary people / Tom Perrotta
• Against unreality / Ayana Mathis
• No one ever changes / Jim Shepard
• Lose yourself / Karl Ove Knausgaard
• On commonness / Leslie Jamison
• Letting the leopards in / Jonathan Lethem
• The edge of sense / Jesse Ball
• A place to call my own / Angela Flournoy
• Into the wardrobe, into the self / Lev Grossman
• Strangers on a train / Yiyun Li
• Time passes / Maggie Shipstead
• Translating the subconscious / Jeff Tweedy
• The long game / Nell Zink
• Lifting the blanket / Charles Simic
• Follow this voice / Viet Thanh Nguyen
• You and me / Emma Donoghue
• Words on paper will outlast us / Claire Messud
• Nobody asked you to write that novel / Jane Smiley
• My favorite curmudgeon / Jonathan Franzen
• Writing for right now / Hanya Yanagihara
• Recommended dosage / Ben Marcus
• Music for misfits / Mark Haddon
• Enough about me / Azar Nafisi
• How stories say goodbye / T.C. Boyle
• Rehearsals for death / Ethan Canin
• Happy accidents / Eileen Myles
• the brain is larger than the sea / Marilynne Robinson
• Random joy / Neil Gaiman.

"What inspires you? That's the simple, but profound question more than forty renowned authors answer in LIGHT THE DARK. Each author picks a favorite passage--from a novel, a song, a poem--to reveal what gets them started and keeps them going doing the creative work they love. From there, incredible stories of life changing encounters with art emerge, like how sneaking a volume of Stephen King stories into his job as a night security guard helped Khaled Hosseini learn that nothing he creates will ever be truly finished. Or how discovering Toni Morrison's Beloved in college taught Junot Díaz how art can create communities of shared experience. Here is a stunning guide to creative living and writing in the vein of Bird by Bird, Big Magic, and Daily Rituals for anyone who wants to learn how great writers find inspiration and how to find some of your own. Writer Joe Fassler has been collecting these lessons in his beloved "By Heart" series for The Atlantic, spinning conversations with hundreds of authors into motivating essays paired with striking illustrations. Light the Dark collects the best of "By Heart" and adds brand new pieces from award-winning writers like Marilynne Robinson, Junot Diaz, and Neil Gaiman"-- Provided by publisher.

"Dans les études rassemblées sous ce titre, Sobhi Habchi, en poète mais aussi en comparatiste et en chercheur, a voulu montrer comment le fait littéraire, poétique, artistique et musical, peut devenir un moyen de réflexion dans la mesure où il exprime une certaine vision de l'homme et du monde et plus encore de l'homme dans le monde. Dans son propos sur le phénomène du Tarab/ enchantement ainsi que dans ses deux études sur la musique et la poésie et la poésie de la musique, il tente de donner au lecteur occidental la "traduction" des effets de ce ravissement ou de cet émerveillement à dimension ontologique qui envahit celui qui cesse d'être auditeur pour faire participer les mouvements de son âme et de son corps au rythme de l'univers. L'étude sur l'essence de la création poétique, comme celles consacrées au poète argentin Porchia (l'une des premières réflexions en français sur ce grand visionnaire), au romancier cubain Alejo Carpentier et à Jorge Luis Borges proposent de nouveaux angles de lecture pour mieux saisir ce qu'est le mystère de la création poétique. Et au nom de l'amitié, Sobhi Habchi consacre un essai au peintre franco-espagnol Manolo Ruiz-Pipô, ami trop tôt disparu : un hommage où ne manquent pas les bons souvenirs de Chartres... ni le partage d'une fraternité poétique et artistique exemplaire."--P. [4] of cover.

Creativity: Theory, History, Practice offers important new perspectives on creativity in the light of contemporary critical theory and cultural history. Innovative in approach as well as argument, the book crosses disciplinary boundaries and builds new bridges between the critical and the creative. It is organised in four parts: * Why creativity now? offers much-needed alternatives to both the Romantic stereotype of the creator as individual genius and the tendency of the modern creative industries to treat everything as a commodity. * Defining creativity, creating definitions traces the changing meaning of 'create' from religious ideas of divine creation from nothing to advertising notions of concept creation. It also examines the complex history and extraordinary versatility of terms such as imagination, invention, inspiration and originality. * Creation as myth, story, metaphor begins with modern re-tellings of early African, American and Australian creation myths and - picking up Biblical and evolutionary accounts along the way - works round to scientific visions of the Big Bang, bubble universes and cosmic soup. * Creative practices, cultural processes is a critical anthology of materials, chosen to promote fresh thinking about everything from changing constructions of 'literature' and 'design' to artificial intelligence and genetic engineering. Rob Pope takes significant steps forward in the process of rethinking a vexed yet vital concept, all the while encouraging and equipping readers to continue the process in their own creative or 're-creative' ways. Creativity: Theory, History, Practice is invaluable for anyone with a live interest in exploring what creativity has been, is currently, and yet may be.
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