Authorial Creativity in Interdisciplinary Perspective: The Cognitive-Material Generation of Annie Ernaux’s Les années

This article offers an exploration of the creative process of literary authors from a cognitive-psychological perspective. Analyzing Annie Ernaux’s personal diary, her writing diary, and avant-textes and manuscript drafts for Les années (2008), translated as The Years, the article demonstrates how E...

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Published inModern philology Vol. 121; no. 2; pp. 214 - 237
Main Author Effe, Alexandra
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Chicago The University of Chicago Press 01.11.2023
University of Chicago, acting through its Press
Subjects
Compositional styles
Creative process
Creative writing
Creativity
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Summary:This article offers an exploration of the creative process of literary authors from a cognitive-psychological perspective. Analyzing Annie Ernaux’s personal diary, her writing diary, and avant-textes and manuscript drafts for Les années (2008), translated as The Years, the article demonstrates how Ernaux innovates the genre of autobiography and the relation between the individual and the collective. The article considers Ernaux’s experimentation with cognitive and material resources in light of and as shedding light on accounts of creativity and writing from psychology and philosophy of mind. In so doing, it contributes to interdisciplinary exploration of creativity and points to new directions for the field of genetic criticism.
ISSN:0026-8232
1545-6951
DOI:10.1086/727202