TY - ADVS
T1 - A Self-Governing Literature: Who Owns the Map of the World?
AU - Wright, Alexis
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The imaginative literary mind is as boundless as it is borderless and bountiful in its way, finding ways of powerfully creating anew the already imagined with the unimagined or unimaginable. Possibly George Orwell had thought something like this when he explained that the imagination was like certain wild animals that do not breed in captivity, and that writers who denied this fact were in effect demanding their own destruction. The dreamlike state of imagining is continuously curious while it shifts and reshapes its positioning and influences. But imagination is never alone. There is a fight going on all day long in the mind of the writer about how to counterbalance the fanciful world of the imagination.
AB - The imaginative literary mind is as boundless as it is borderless and bountiful in its way, finding ways of powerfully creating anew the already imagined with the unimagined or unimaginable. Possibly George Orwell had thought something like this when he explained that the imagination was like certain wild animals that do not breed in captivity, and that writers who denied this fact were in effect demanding their own destruction. The dreamlike state of imagining is continuously curious while it shifts and reshapes its positioning and influences. But imagination is never alone. There is a fight going on all day long in the mind of the writer about how to counterbalance the fanciful world of the imagination.
UR - https://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:72140
UR - https://search-informit-org.ezproxy.uws.edu.au/doi/epdf/10.3316/informit.227955788999271
U2 - 10.3316/informit.227955788999271
DO - 10.3316/informit.227955788999271
M3 - Textual Works
PB - Meanjin Company
CY - Carlton, Vic.
ER -