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Shanzhai: Creative Imitation of China in Highland Myanmar

positions: asia critique, 2022
Abstract The Wa State of Myanmar is often called “shanzhai China,” that is, a lesser imitation of China. This essay unpacks the material and symbolic implications of creative imitation at the Chinese periphery, embodied in shanzhai 山寨 practices.
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Creative Imitation and Latin Literature

1979
The poets and prose-writers of Greece and Rome were acutely conscious of their literary heritage. They expressed this consciousness in the regularity with which, in their writings, they imitated and alluded to the great authors who had preceded them.
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The Anxiety of Imitation: On the “Boringness" of Creative Turing Tests

2020
The authors speculate why some are bored by the goal of computational generation of "human-like" text. Inspired by Italo Calvino's alternative, minor strain in "Cybernetics and Ghosts," they argue that this kind of text generation provides an opportunity to destabilize as well as refine our sense of the differences between human and machine cognition.
Booten, Kyle, Rockmore, Dan
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Imitation as a Creative Vehicle in Michelangelo’s Art and Architecture

2012
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Wyatt's Petrarchism: An Instance of Creative Imitation in the Renaissance

Huntington Library Quarterly, 1965
11TA TT'S IMITATIONS of Petrarch have been illuminated by the V V sensitivity and learning of modern scholars. Their art has been shown to be independent and admirable, their attitude individual and moving.' As the original cast of these imitations becomes more clearly recognized, however, the need to understand it, both historically and aesthetically,
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A research framework for creative and imitative reasoning

Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2007
This conceptual research framework addresses the problem of rote learn- ing by characterising key aspects of the dominating imitative reasoning and the lack of creative mathematical reasoning found ...
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Creative Imitation in the Story of Josiah

Journal of Biblical Literature
Abstract Until the 1990s, the biblical description of King Josiah’s cult reform was usually considered to be more or less accurate, but that is now debated. This essay contributes to the debate by showing that most of the story of King Josiah is a creative imitation of the story of King Jehoash of Judah. Thus, there is no evidence for
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FORMATION OF SPEECH IN PRESCHOOL AGE AS A UNITY OF IMITATION AND CREATIVITY

“Educational bulletin “Consciousness”, 2021
The study examines the aspect of the formation of speech in preschool children, as a unity of imitation and creativity. According to the Federal State Educational Standard of Preschool Education: «The speech development of children includes the possession of speech as a means of communication and culture; the enrichment of an active vocabulary; the ...
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Imitation and Creativity: Beneficial Effects of Propulsion Strategies and Specificity

The Journal of Creative Behavior, 2013
AbstractPrior studies examining imitation of exemplar solutions have produced a mixed pattern of findings with some studies indicating that exemplar imitation contributes to creative problem‐solving and other studies indicating that it may inhibit creative problem‐solving.
Jensen T. Mecca, Michael D. Mumford
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The Benefit of Imitation for Creativity in Art and Design

2017
Many artists and designers borrow, cite, or seek inspiration in external source materials in their daily creative practice. The aim of this chapter is to show that imitation of external source material offers creative professionals the opportunity to introduce an element of surprise to the creative act, which may explain why a creative product with ...
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