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According to cognitive psychologists, creativity is a special kind of problem-solving experience, which involves the activation of two opposite but complementary mental processes, convergent thinki...
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Simona Beccone is Associate Professor (English literature) at the Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics, University of Pisa
According to cognitive psychologists, creativity is a special kind of problem-solving experience, which involves the activation of two opposite but complementary mental processes, convergent thinking and divergent thinking, as well as insight
This paper aims to enter into the contemporary debate on the topic by analysing a well-known Keatsian sonnet, «When I have fears ... »
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Abstract: According to cognitive psychologists, creativity is a special kind of problem-solving experience, which involves the activation of two opposite but complementary mental processes, convergent thinking and divergent thinking, as well as insight. Unlike what occurs in the first quatrain, where the aggregative expansiveness of divergent thinking is modelled in naturalistic terms, as unrestrained organicistic growth, the processing of the speaker’s creative mind includes the cultural dimension of rhetoric.
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