Abstract
Abstract To respond to any problem, we select some procedure from a space of possible solutions. When the problem is routine, the search space is very narrow. When the problem is novel or recalcitrant to standard solutions, we need to broaden the search space. The broader the search space, the more likely it is that we will consider innovative solutions and the more likely it is that the search space will contain apt solutions; however, the search is likely to become more time-consuming. Creativity, then, involves neither routine procedures nor free simulation, but nonroutine constraints. There are different ways in which the constraints may be set. Focusing on literary creativity, the chapter considers creative story developments and metaphors, particularly in Hamlet. To illustrate these points, the essay draws on Hamlet and other literary works, not only as targets of analysis but also as models for the formal presentation of the analysis. (Like a montage of earlier scenes at the end of a film, the chapter also sets out to recall and celebrate the other chapters in the volume, principally through the weaving of brief, allusive references into the scholarly fabric of the imaginary appendix.)
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