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Recovering inspiration in the spaces of creative writing
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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Process : landscape and text
While the relationship between place and creative effort has been the focus of pronounced new interest in various disciplines, the contours and co-ordinates of the process by which one informs the other, by which landscape shapes text and vice versa, have yet to be delineated in any systematic fashion. This volume sheds light on that process, investigating the ways in which it is both reciprocal and interstitial: how does text shape our perception of landscape as much as it is shaped by it, and how do we account for the points at which text and landscape intersect? The first part of the volume introduces us to the question of process in landscape and literary studies; the second part examines the moments within the process by which landscape and text come to bear upon each other; and the final part deals with the relationship between the material experience of landscape and the formal characteristics of a given text, using this to reflect back on the processes of landscape perception and creativity. This volume spans the disciplines of geography, literary studies, and the visual arts. It also brings together scholarly and creative perspectives, interspersing academic commentary with poetic-photographic essays.
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A New Critical Climate
Sometimes called \"critical climate change,\" this project announces two important, seemingly conflicting questions.1 Does the radically unprecedented phenomenon of climate change herald a new critical climate, in which our collective theoretical and critical faculties, long used to carry out humanist cultural analysis, are rendered fit for purpose for an age of human and nonhuman catastrophe? In its simultaneous unknowability and ubiquity, climate change is something (or some thing) we have been describing in the annals of critical theory all along: an aporia, the Lacanian \"real,\" the postmodern unrepresentable, and so on. [...]Timothy Clark is prompted to note wryly that, \"if asked to respond to the challenge of an issue such as climate change never considered by Derrida, for many the reflex would be to argue, somehow, how well he had covered it already\" (2010,132). [...]all the essays in this volume index the many layers of interrogation-ethical, aesthetic, political-that comprise this startlingly new critical climate.
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The Rest Is Silence: Postmodern and Postcolonial Possibilities in Climate Change Fiction
In this essay, I consider postmodernist tendencies in two recent climate change novels, Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book (2013) and Chang-rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea (2014). While I hesitate to claim that these herald a distinct postmodern turn in climate change fiction, I argue that these novels’ postmodernist self-awareness constitutes a promising new direction for fiction in the Anthropocene. Displaying a postcolonial awareness and deploying the postmodernist strategies of metafiction and magical realism, the novels undermine the omniscience of third-person narrators and the reliability of focalizers in order simultaneously to destabilize realist, imperialist, and anthropocentric constructions of the world. Indeed, they not only question the dominance of master-narratives; they question domination per se. That is, in these novels, voice itself comes under suspicion as an anthropocentric fallacy.
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MY JOB IS TO TAKE CARE OF YOU
In a comparable statement, the British writer and activist George Monbiot praised the novel as \"the most important environmental book ever written,\" in his regular column in the UK broadsheet the Guardian in October 2007, asserting that it \"will change the way you see the world.\" Some scholars have steadfastly pursued the task of identifying possible causes, scouring plot and setting for clues, but others have convincingly countered that it really does not matter, and it is this not mattering that is the novel's point.1 Whatever the hypotheses turned up by critical games of guess the catastrophe-an asteroid strike, nuclear attack, divine apocalypse-it is fair to say, in the novel, climate change never definitively figures among the events that so transform the world.2 In other words, the novel is not easily identifiable as what is now sometimes labeled \"climate change fiction\" or \"cli-fi\" (P. Clark).3 However, the temptation to link the novel to that ubiquitous environmental crisis commonly called global warming or climate change is strong.
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Comparative Critical Perspectives on the Anthropocene: An Introduction
[...]those vulnerabilities lie with both human and nonhuman individuals: the Anthropocene demands that human-nonhuman as well as intra-human injustices are dealt with, that the ways in which global systems are interlocked with planetary ones are properly understood. Anthropocene Criticality: The Planetary, the Global, and the World What kind of Anthropocene criticality would be both an act of recognition of human responsibility and a reckoning across boundaries (whether intra- or interspecies) of agency, power, and vulnerability? Cheah argues that the original \"effete idealist\" (26) account of world literature as Weitliteratur as put forward by Goethe, which offers an educative, cosmopolitan, and ultimately unifying function, has been replaced with a more pernicious celebration of the circulation and exchange of texts and ideas; this, however, ignores the market realities of trade and commodification that underwrite the traffic of texts. [...]globalization and worldliness are conflated in a way that ignores \"the vulnerability of world literature to the techniques of the global culture industry\" (30), writes Cheah.
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