The Writing Experiment by Hazel Smith

65 chapter four Writing as recycling In this chapter we will look at ways in which you can recycle texts in cre- ative writing. ...

66 The Writing Experiment through newspapers, articles or novels and use them as a springboard, jotting down striking phrases he ...

CUTTING IT WITH COLLAGE What is a collage? Exercise 1 focuses on making a collage. A collage is an amalgamation of extracts from ...

literary or religious texts into his own writing. Here collage mainly takes the form of quotation, but Eliot also rewrites some ...

Writing as recycling 69 Extensive plains gently undulating destitute of timber extend, with interruption to Maniroon Plains sout ...

passage, written by Anne Brewster, is taken from a longer collaboration about memory (Brewster & Smith 2002). Here the autho ...

masculinist rhetoric ‘he is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past’. The contr ...

for example, exploit stereotypical images of ‘romance’, but Amanda Stewart is ironising them, subverting their original purpose. ...

Writing as recycling 73 fragments, if they are elided and worked together into a new text, can create connotations which could n ...

a range of possibilities, and there is no right or wrong way to design the collage. If you want to explore alternatives, you can ...

literary function. We all know the sensation of looking at a notice, an instruction, a recipe or an advertisement and thinking t ...

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text and framed it as a poem, so that this kind of intertextual connection can be made. When you are creating found texts you ha ...

78 The Writing Experiment The key she has used becomes bloodstained, and is a telltale sign that she has opened the room: she ca ...

Writing as recycling 79 Throughout, the rewriting is imbued with a psychological depth missing from the original. For example, w ...

This exercise also makes demands on your narrative technique, and you may find it useful to return to it after you have done the ...

Writing as recycling 81 Charming House Stormed By Females: 10 Arrested A dramatic scene occurred yesterday when hundreds of fema ...

CONCLUSION In this chapter we have explored various techniques for recycling texts, to make you more aware of the intertextual p ...

Writing as recycling 83 your future writing practice, or you may simply draw on them from time to time. You may want to use them ...

chapter five Narrative, narratology ,power Narratives are an immensely important part of our daily lives. They take the form of ...