TY - JOUR
T1 - Engaging the World: Writing, Imagination, and Enactivism
AU - Ravenscroft, Ian
PY - 2017/4
Y1 - 2017/4
N2 - Writing is not purely cerebral; it reaches out beyond the brain to engage the world. Two kinds of world-engaging processes are discussed here: a dynamic loop involving writing, reading, and writing again, and a second dynamic loop involving writing, reading to an audience, receiving feedback, and writing again. Several writers, including Flaubert and Nabokov, have discerned these loops, which have also been explored experimentally. I close by discussing the role that active engagement with the world plays in imagination.
AB - Writing is not purely cerebral; it reaches out beyond the brain to engage the world. Two kinds of world-engaging processes are discussed here: a dynamic loop involving writing, reading, and writing again, and a second dynamic loop involving writing, reading to an audience, receiving feedback, and writing again. Several writers, including Flaubert and Nabokov, have discerned these loops, which have also been explored experimentally. I close by discussing the role that active engagement with the world plays in imagination.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85021908874&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1353/phl.2017.0003
DO - 10.1353/phl.2017.0003
M3 - Article
VL - 41
SP - 45
EP - 54
JO - PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE
JF - PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE
SN - 0190-0013
IS - 1
ER -