Inarticulacy in Creative Writing Practice and Translation: Where Language Thickens

Kendall, Judy

Abstract

Inarticulacy in Creative Writing Practice and Translation: Where Language Thickens breaks new ground, investigating the initiation and furthering of academic thought in creative writing research and practice and in the processes, products and theories of creative translation. The book considers the powerful effects occurring at the threshold between articulation and inarticulation in original and translated literary compositions. At this threshold, language can be said to thicken, like mist. Obscuring or altering usual conditions of legibility or lexical meaning, language becomes unfamiliar, not fixed but flexible, incomplete, even absent. These thickening moments alter and enrich literary processes and texts to effect, somehow, a paradigm shift in composition, translation and reading strategies and experiences from the familiar to the unexpected, offering ways of thinking outside conventional academic practice, such as sensorial thinking, the employment of non-textual modalities, and positive interpretations of the stutter. Inarticulacy: Where Language Thickens considers the viewpoints of writers, translators and readers, demonstrating through argument and enactment how thickening language enables creative writing to lead and develop academic enquiry.

• Book Type: Monograph
• Deposit Date: Aug 8, 2024
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Series Title: Research in Creative Writing
• Edition: 2025
• ISBN: 9781350502352
• Keywords: inarticulacy, creative writing practice, code-switching, made-up Englishes, creative translation, non-textual modalities, reading strategies, sensorial thinking, vital materiality
• Publisher URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/inarticulacy-in-creative-writing-practice-and-translation-9781350502352/
• Contract Date: Jun 25, 2024