scholarly journals Inspired by art: Higher aesthetic appeal elicits increased felt inspiration in a creative writing task.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominik Welke ◽  
Isaac Purton ◽  
Edward A. Vessel
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Aesthetic Appeal ◽  
Writing Task

Alcohol and Creative Writing

1992 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 651-658 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Brunke ◽  
Merv Gilbert
Keyword(s):  
Body Weight ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Figurative Language ◽  
High Dose ◽  
Social Drinkers ◽  
Repeated Measures Design ◽  
Alcohol Condition ◽  
Writer’S Block ◽  
Writing Task

A repeated-measures design was used to test for the effects of alcohol on creative writing as measured by use of novel figurative language. 11 male social drinkers participated in a creative writing task under two conditions, alcohol (high dose: 1.1 ml. ethanol/kilogram body weight) and placebo. In the alcohol condition, within-subject comparisons indicated significantly greater quantity of creative writing while intoxicated. These results were interpreted as supporting the belief that alcohol can reduce “writer's block,” at least amongst nonalcoholic subjects.

Conducting a Micro-Evaluation in an EFL Classroom for a Performance-Assisted Learning Activity

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-64
Author(s):  
Marcus Theobald
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Peer Assessment ◽  
Learning Activity ◽  
Individual Student ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Pal Activity ◽  
Student Journals ◽  
Writing Task

Performance–assisted learning (PAL) was introduced at the 2017 annual Japanese Association for Language Teaching (JALT) conference. It was revealed to be a “new concept in education” and that EFL university teachers were “extremely excited about its efficacy and power to motivate” (Head et al., 2018, p. 233). However, it was claimed that in many institutions, English department administrators did not share the same enthusiasm, seeing PAL activities as not academic enough. This study aims to gather a variety of qualitative data to validate the use of PAL. Over 5 weeks, a micro-evaluation involving a number of data sets was conducted on two university classes, containing 46 students in total, for a PAL activity (in this case, a four-page skit). The evaluations were individual student journals, peer-assessment, creative writing, teacher observation, and a video. The study describes the 5-week project procedure, and aims to provide more comprehensive evidence to support the use of PAL in the EFL classroom. Findings indicate very positive student engagement in the project, and a need to give more explicit instruction to students for the creative writing task.

The perception of imaginary agents in creative writing

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Travis A. Riddle ◽  
Betsy Sparrow
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing

Evidence for an Amodal Picture-Word Processing Model From a Bilingual Drawing-Writing Task

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul C. Amrhein ◽  
Ramon Sanchez ◽  
Barbara Kim ◽  
John Theios
Keyword(s):  
Word Processing ◽  
Writing Task

Arabic in Modern Hebrew Texts

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Population Displacement ◽  
Translation Strategies ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The Social ◽  
Modern Hebrew

In the late 1950s, Iraqi Jews were either forced or chose to leave Iraq for Israel. Finding it impossible to continue writing in Arabic in Israel, many Iraqi Jewish novelists faced the literary challenge of switching to Hebrew. Focusing on the literary works of the writers Shimon Ballas, Sami Michael and Eli Amir, this book examines their use of their native Iraqi Arabic in their Hebrew works. It examines the influence of Arabic language and culture and explores questions of language, place and belonging from the perspective of sociolinguistics and multilingualism. In addition, the book applies stylistics as a framework to investigate the range of linguistic phenomena that can be found in these exophonic texts, such as code-switching, borrowing, language and translation strategies. This new stylistic framework for analysing exophonic texts offers a future model for the study of other languages. The social and political implications of this dilemma, as it finds expression in creative writing, are also manifold. In an age of mass migration and population displacement, the conflicted loyalties explored in this book through the prism of Arabic and Hebrew are relevant in a range of linguistic contexts.

The Qur'an in the Novels of Naguib Mahfouz (in Arabic)

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 126-104
Author(s):  
M.A.S. Abdel Haleem
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Modern Education ◽  
Ubiquitous Presence ◽  
Structural Aspects ◽  
Artistic Talent ◽  
Naguib Mahfouz

With a rich, productive career spanning over 60 years, culminating in the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988, Naguib Mahfouz's literary works have naturally attracted numerous studies and critiques. These studies have covered a great many aspects of Mahfouz's creative writing, but, perhaps because of the secular, modern education Mahfouz received (both at school and in the Department of Philosophy in Cairo University), and his personal lifestyle, they have concentrated on the socialist, materialist, and structural aspects of his work. Perhaps because of this, one important aspect of his writing has largely escaped attention: his artistic use of the language of the Qur'an. Mahfouz does not signal that a given phrase or reference is Qur'anic, leaving it to blend with the text, and making it easy to miss the fact that the Qur'an played any part in Mahfouz's use of language. However, to a reader who knows the Qur'an by heart the presence of Qur'anic language in his works is obvious, and equally obvious is Mahfouz's artistic talent in using it. Eventually, he himself announced at the end of his life that he had always had an intimate interest in the Qur'an, read it daily, and benefited from it. This article seeks to demonstrate the ubiquitous presence of Qur'anic language in Mahfouz's works, and the skill and subtlety with which he used it.

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