Miller's answer: Making, Saying, and the Impulse to Write.
Starting with attempts by several authors, in particular Arthur Miller, to explain the nature of the impulse to write, this paper examines the tensions and relationships between conceptions of the act of writing as 'making' and as 'saying'. Writing conceived as craft is explored using recent ideas f...
| Published in: | New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice & Theory of Creative Writing Vol. 8; no. 1; pp. 71 - 90 |
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2011
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