Thagard, P. (forthcoming). Artistic genius and creative cognition. INTRODUCTION There are highly creative people in all domains of human productivity, including scientific discovery, technological invention, social innovation, and artistic imagination. All of these kinds of creativity require mental operations that generate ideas and other products that are both new and valuable. The main quest...

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...

the purpose of the present paper is to investigate semantic deviation of the holy quran in amal donqol's poetry. deviation is one of the techniques of defamiliarization, and was first introduced by the russian formalists in 1917. constructivist attitude toward literary texts and emphasis on the aesthetic aspects of the literary works led formalists to consider literary language as the main...