Students’ literary creativity

How Copying Artwork Affects Students’ Artistic Creativity

30 undergraduates participated individually in a threeday-drawing experiment. It was explored whether an experience copying others’ drawing facilitated subjects’ artistic creativity. Results showed that drawings by subjects who previously had copied others’ drawings were rated more creative than the drawings of subjects who had not copied. Two further analyses revealed how subjects could produc...

Memory, imagination and literary creativity as origins in the works of A. S. Pushkin

The article analyses the research carried out during the last 5 years, which is dedicated not only to a historical theme in Pushkin’s works, but also historicism as a phenomenon of A.S. Pushkin’s creative mind. In contrast with traditionally considered aspects of Pushkin’s historicism, the author analyses the genesis of Pushkin’s perception of history. The events imprint...

Artiicial Intelligence, Story Generation and Literary Creativity: the State of the Art

When reflective feedback triggers goal revision: a computational model for literary creativity

Existing models of the writing task from a cognitive viewpoint agree on the importance of draft revision in the overall process. This is generally assumed to focus on reviewing intermediate drafts in search for feedback on how to modify them to match the driving constraints. However, in literary creativity it is often the case that the feedback leads not to a revision of the current draft but t...

Artificial Intelligence and Literary Creativity: Inside the Mind of BRUTUS, a Storytelling Machine

BRUTUS is a p rogram that tells stories. The stories are intriguing, they hold a hint of mystery, a n d n o t least impress ivethey are written in correct English prose. An example (p. 124) is shown in Figure 1. This remarkable feat is g rounded in a complex architecture making use of a number of levels, each of which is parameter ized so as to become a locus of possible variation. The specific...