Abstract
This chapter asks the question ‘what precisely am I doing when I write?’ and – partly through the nature of creative / critical hybridity – explores the ambivalence I feel towards that question. I investigate the ‘method acting’ I undertake as I write, adopting first or close third person narration as a mantle or mask, creating a paradigmatic filter as I do so. I have included an example of this kind of writing where I ‘became’ Phyllis Lockhart while I was writing – a form of acting on the page. Taking Rob Pope’s work on creativity as inspiration, I engage with some of the cultural idioms that orbit around the term ‘creative’ by creating a taxonomy for the term as it operates in culture. I end by looking briefly at some alternative ways of understanding creative practice, contextually and personally.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Creative Critic: writing as / about practice |
Editors | Emily Orley, Katja Hilevaara |
Publisher | Routledge |
Chapter | 34 |
Number of pages | 6 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781138674837 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 20 Apr 2018 |
Keywords
- Creative practice
- Creative research
- Practice-based research