Inarticulacy in Creative Writing Practice and Translation

Where Language Thickens

Dr Judy Kendall author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Publishing:20th Mar '25

£85.00

This title is due to be published on 20th March, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

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An exploration of how creative and extra-linguistic effects develop meaning and argument in original and translated works

An investigation intothe powerful effects occurring at the threshold between articulation and inarticulation in original and translated works, this book models how creative writing research, practice, processes, products and theories can further academic thought. At the threshold of in/articulacy, language can be said to ‘thicken’ and obscure the usual conditions of legibility or lexical meaning, becoming unfamiliar, flexible, incomplete, even absent. These ‘thickening’ moments alter and enrich literary processes and texts to initiate a paradigm shift in composition, translation and reading experiences. Interrogating this shift from the viewpoints of writers, translators and readers, Judy Kendall draws on translation studies, literary theory, anthropology, philosophy and physics and more to examine the practices of Semantic Poetry Translation, code-switching, made-up English, visual text, vital materiality and the material-discursive. Breaking new ground with her enactment of the ways in which creative writing can take an active and productive lead in research enquiries, Kendall looks at works including Old English riddles, Nigerian novels, J R. R. Tolkien’s and Ursula K. Le Guin’s narratives, Caroline Bergvall’s hybrid works, Caryl Churchill’s The Skriker, Patrick Chamoiseau’s novels, Zong! and several other visual texts.

A fascinating, highly-original and wide-ranging book which explores how the ‘thickening’ of language through visual and formal experiment can transform both the experience of reading and the potential of creative research. * Andrew Roberts, University of Dundee, UK *

ISBN: 9781350502352

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224 pages