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This essay argues that cognitive science can provide new frameworks that extend the way we think about the human practice of creative writing. Drawing on research areas of situated cognition, embodied cognition, affect theory and neuroscience, the essay examines how this research can shed light on relationships of mind, thought and body to creative writing.
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This essay introduces a theory of creative writing based on aspects of cognition and furthers understanding of connections between the creative writing process, the page or screen, and the mind of the writer.
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This article provides a nexus between two areas that interest me: the process of the writer's mind in doing creative writing and the process of the reader's mind in reading - the latter also including the 'reading' aspect of writing itself.
Dr Marcelle Freiman
Macquarie University
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This page is a summary of: A ‘Cognitive Turn’ in Creative Writing – Cognition, Body and Imagination, New Writing, March 2015, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/14790726.2015.1016043.
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