TY - JOUR
T1 - Cohesive Plurality: Exploring the relationship between resonance and the act of writing
AU - Kirkbride, Jasmin
PY - 2020/9/4
Y1 - 2020/9/4
N2 - Following Peter Elbow’s work on ‘resonant voice’ or ‘presence’, this essay examines the seldom-explored resonance between a text and its writer in the moment of its creation. The essay asks what the boundaries and content of this space might look like, and how this knowledge might positively affect the creative product. It challenges the popular search for a writer’s ‘voice’, instead positing that each writer has a perpetually shifting internal plurality of voices, which unifies the constructivist and social constructionist views of the self. By arguing that the resonance between writer and writing is the experience of this plurality coming to harmony, the essay posits that to create such a resonance involves a balance of simultaneously relinquishing control to the internal choir and learning how to better conduct it.
AB - Following Peter Elbow’s work on ‘resonant voice’ or ‘presence’, this essay examines the seldom-explored resonance between a text and its writer in the moment of its creation. The essay asks what the boundaries and content of this space might look like, and how this knowledge might positively affect the creative product. It challenges the popular search for a writer’s ‘voice’, instead positing that each writer has a perpetually shifting internal plurality of voices, which unifies the constructivist and social constructionist views of the self. By arguing that the resonance between writer and writing is the experience of this plurality coming to harmony, the essay posits that to create such a resonance involves a balance of simultaneously relinquishing control to the internal choir and learning how to better conduct it.
UR - https://brill.com/view/journals/logo/31/2/article-p52_52.xml
U2 - 10.1163/18784712-03102005
DO - 10.1163/18784712-03102005
M3 - Article
VL - 31
SP - 52
EP - 56
JO - Logos
JF - Logos
SN - 0869-5377
IS - 2
ER -