Bottling the Imagination: Writing as Metamorphosis in Ali Smith's Girl Meets Boy.
This article discusses ideas about creativity in the context of a recent work by Ali Smith, Girl Meets Boy. It follows Pope in theorising a view of creativity that sees it as re-creation and demonstrates the extent to which the context in which Smith's novel is produced, as well as the acknowledged...
| Published in: | New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice & Theory of Creative Writing Vol. 7; no. 3; pp. 241 - 252 |
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| Format: | Literary Criticism |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2010
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