An introduction to the first of two TEXT special issues designed to survey attitudes toward, and enactments of, creativecritical writing now.
The first of two TEXT special issues designed to survey attitudes toward, and enactments of, creativecritical writing now. A major theme within this special issue is the ways in which creativecritical writing exposes the space of its construction.
Guest Editors: Stefanie Markidis and Daniel Juckes.
Special issues: editorial
Special Issues: scholarly article
Inside the house of fiction: The creative-critical possibility of Gerald Murnane’s A Million Windows
Through a reading of Gerald Murnane’s A Million Windows (2014), I propose a model for how a critic might read from within a literary text.
- Special Issues: scholarly articleThis article takes up Ann Cvetkovitch’s desire for a mode “beyond” the predictable to argue that creativecritical writing might be better understood as a methodology than as a genre.
- Special Issues: scholarly articleIn this creativecritical essay, I argue that spatiality in language is a key principle of creativecritical writing.
- Special Issues: scholarly articleThis paper uses a Calvino-inspired creativecritical approach toward archival research to explore potential “versos” in archived text.
- Special Issues: scholarly articleMy focus is on apophasis, the rhetoric of denial and negation, which since classical times has been a means of using language to deal with what lies beyond language.
By applying Bakhtin’s understanding of the carnivalised novel, this paper argues that performative exegeses and creative-exegetical texts undermine the perceived hierarchies and distinctions between exegetical and creative writing.
Special Issues: scholarly article
This paper explores ways of traversing the perceived gap between creative and critical writing to help develop a creative/critical voice appropriate to the creative writing doctoral exegesis.
Special issues: creative works
“The Island of Brazil” offers a critique of nationalist historical and spatial mythologies by drawing on the agility and flexibility of creativecritical methods.
- Special issues: creative works“Admissions” is a speculative fiction invoking two traditions – science and literature – that reflects on creativity in education.