Recovering inspiration in the spaces of creative writing
Catherine Brace
Department of Geography, University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall TR10 9EZemail: [email protected]
Search for more papers by this authorAdeline Johns-Putra
Department of English, University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall TR10 9EZ
Search for more papers by this authorCatherine Brace
Department of Geography, University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall TR10 9EZemail: [email protected]
Search for more papers by this authorAdeline Johns-Putra
Department of English, University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall TR10 9EZ
Search for more papers by this authorAbstract
This paper emerges from a project conducted between academics in literary studies and geography that explored the creative process amongst writers who write for pleasure. It seeks to understand writing as creative process as well as simply representation, recovering process as a part of creative making. Building on a long tradition of theorising process and creativity in literary studies, which has cumulatively discredited the idea of inspiration, this paper asks whether a fresh engagement between geography, literary studies and other work on creative writing can provide new insights into the creative process. Recognising that questions of representation have been pursued with different trajectories in geography and literary studies, this paper attempts to identify our common intellectual concerns as well as asking whether a rapprochement between questions of representation and non-representational theory can provide the stimulus for an enlivened account that recovers the place of inspiration in creative writing.
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