The act of writing and the act of attention

Harrison, M

The act of writing and the act of attention

Harrison, M

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Publisher:: Australian Association of Writing Programs
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Text, 2013, 20 (October 2013), pp. 1 - 11
Issue Date:: 2013-01

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dc.contributor.author	Harrison, M	en_US
dc.date.issued	2013-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Text, 2013, 20 (October 2013), pp. 1 - 11	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1327-9556	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/27388
dc.description.abstract	Is writing, including creative writing and its teaching, inevitably on the other side of the natural environment and ecological systems? Is writing, by definition, an action of a mindfulness and inventiveness which implicitly creates a cognitive separation between the world of the text and the world of ecological systems? A number of critics have recently been trying to propose modes and structures which merge this divide, or minimise it borrowing from biology, cognitive theory and probability theory. The paper considers a variety of such formal structures but argues especially for a particular mode of attentiveness in our concept of language and proposes its centrality in the teaching of a contemporary ecologically mindful writing.	en_US
dc.publisher	Australian Association of Writing Programs	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Text	en_US
dc.title	The act of writing and the act of attention	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	October 2013	en_US
utslib.citation.volume	20	en_US
utslib.for	1904 Performing Arts and Creative Writing	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/e-Press
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/Creative Writing Program
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CPCE - Centre for Creative Practices and the Cultural Economy
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pubs.issue	October 2013	en_US
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Abstract:

Is writing, including creative writing and its teaching, inevitably on the other side of the natural environment and ecological systems? Is writing, by definition, an action of a mindfulness and inventiveness which implicitly creates a cognitive separation between the world of the text and the world of ecological systems? A number of critics have recently been trying to propose modes and structures which merge this divide, or minimise it borrowing from biology, cognitive theory and probability theory. The paper considers a variety of such formal structures but argues especially for a particular mode of attentiveness in our concept of language and proposes its centrality in the teaching of a contemporary ecologically mindful writing.

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