Creativity in crisis: Theorising the writer's block subgenre through Coleridge, Douglas and Hughes.
In this article, I propose a theorisation of what I term 'the writer's block subgenre', a literary category comprising creative works shaped by and engaging with the condition of writer's block. Drawing primarily on the theoretical framework of Edmund Bergler, credited with first coining the term 'w...
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