1. Creativity and the Agile Mind

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Part I: Introduction
4. 1. Creativity and the Agile Mind 15
5. 2. E Unis Pluribum: Using Mental Agility to Achieve Creative Duality in Word, Image and Sound 37
6. Part II: Computers and Creativity
7. 3. Computers and Creativity 61
8. 4. Gravital: natural language processing for computer graphics 81
9. 5. Talking Points in Linguistic Creativity 99
10. Part III: Verbal Communication
11. 6. Creatively Exploiting Linguistic Norms 119
12. 7. Online semantic creativity in parliamentary debates 139
13. 8. Yo, who be the main gangsta in our phat gang? – Linguistic creativity and the construction of hyperpersonal identity 159
14. 9. Resonating humour – A corpus-based approach to creative parallelism in dialogue 181
15. 10. A Cognitive Grammar of Creativity 205
16. Part IV: Visual Communication
17. 11. Creativity in the forms and functions of spontaneous gestures with speech 231
18. 12. Creative visual duality in comics balloons 253
19. 13. Creativity in Comics. Exploring the Frontiers of the Medium by Respecting Explicit Self- Imposed Constraints 275
20. 14. On verbal irony, images and creativity: A corpus-analytic approach 293
21. Part V: Musical Performance
22. 15. Multimodal blending and musical creativity. Dualities in the quixotry of Richard Strauss, Jan Sandström and Christian Lindberg 315
23. 16. The Agile Musical Mind: mapping the musician’s act of creation 335
24. 17. Timbre Networks: An approach to Composition and Performance in Computer Music 355
25. Index 375