The Writing Experiment by Hazel Smith

hinge on a single metaphor. Others like Sylvia Plath’s ‘Words’ (1981, p. 270) develop through a number of different metaphors wh ...

Example 2.35: Student example i come to You You have me under control i do not live a day without Yo u Yo u reign as master and ...

inverts, subverts and crosses over genres. In Chapters 10 and 11 we also will see how genre resituates and extends itself even f ...

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cunning structure may, for example, help you to simultaneously project contrasting aspects of a political issue, or contradictor ...

c) variation d) simultaneity e) multilayering f) number. Create a literary text using a culturally specific but non-literary fo ...

Repetition A linear structure depends on a chronological or logical sequence. Repeti- tion (see Exercise 1b) is usually more non ...

Within the undivided moments A twig falls in an empty pathway A moth rests in a margin of light beside the darkening window A sp ...

One way to do this is to create three texts which start with a different colour, and use word association as a means of developm ...

in the stumps of old trees where the rain gathers and the/trapped leaves and the beak, and the laced weasel’s eyes, there are/ho ...

there are ants; and they invade with a fury that time does not diminish. Theirs is the task of reclamation, to reclaim the piles ...

different dimensions depending on how it is read spatially. The following is a very good realisation of this exercise: Example 3 ...

An example of a multilayered structure would be: Example 3.9 Text A: word association (a) Text B: person-in-action (a) Text C: r ...

stanza three: 7 lines and 7 words per line stanza four: 9 lines and 9 words per line Alternatively: Example 3.11 stanza one: 2 l ...

was originally written in 1978 when she was 37: it has 37 sections with 37 lines in each section. When Hejinian became 45 she re ...

incorporated such elements into their work. Bernard Cohen’s novel Tourism (1992), which is discussed further in Chapter 12, is s ...

Staff choice and bargain of the month : an apology to indigenous people, carefully worded to avoid any real expression of regret ...

Weight: 63 kg Hair: Black and White Face:Wrinkled and Ugly Nose: Fleshy Eyes: Myopic, with Double Vision Is it not strange that ...

sequence, and alternative forms of restructuring in postmodern poetry and prose. Finally, Chapter 11 takes us into the web-like, ...

REFERENCES Brewster, A. and Smith, H. 2002, ‘ProseThetic Memories’, Salt.v16. An Inter- national Journal of Poetry and Poetics: ...