The Mirror and the Lamp

Perry, Seamus

doi:10.1093/eic/54.3.260

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“…In the history of Western literature, the creative process itself becomes, from the nineteenth century onwards, both more and less appealing as an object of study. The critical commonplace in literary studies is that the Romantic movement establishes the creative process as a transcendental, ineffable moment, associating it more than ever before with notions such as inspiration, genius, originality (Abrams 1953; Hoffpauir 1985; Perry 2005; for discussions of aspects of the psychology of Romanticism, see Woodman 2005; Clark 1997). This idealisation privileges creativity as an object of wonder yet paradoxically produces a lacuna of knowability in its place; it simultaneously offers up creativity and inspiration as worthy of analysis while obfuscating it as ultimately incomprehensible.…”

Section: Disciplinary Dialoguesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recovering inspiration in the spaces of creative writing

Brace¹,

Johns‐Putra

2010

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

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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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Section: Disciplinary Dialoguesmentioning

confidence: 99%