Speculative views on non-lived memory in creative writing (original) (raw)

2015, Civilization 21, 34, pp.31-39. Aichi University, Nagoya/Toyohashi

Memory and experience are often seen as key elements of creativity (OʼConnor, 1969). In attempts to define the process, observers and practitioners also feel that metacognition and being prepared are important components (Harnad, 2007; McMahon, 2012). These features can rally with and against views of creativity as being filtered through and stemming from “sensory and affective knowledges”, movement and corporeal actuality (Gibbs, 2005, ¶20; Krauth, 2008, 2010; MacFarlane, 2005). The hypothetical aspects of creativity touched on above are in no way exhaustive or exclusive of one another, nor are they the only elements, views and areas researched. However, this essay will particularly focus on the notion of the body, including memory, as a nesting place for creativity and “dimly-remembered melodies” (¶20). Its main focus is in the area of creative writing