Writing Spaces: Writing as Transformative, Scholarly and Creative Practice(119 At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries)

This collection of papers invites the reader to look deeply at traditional and contemporary forms of writing, their implications for teaching and pedagogy, and their use of space as a strategy and as an implied device. We explore the lives and times of great writers, how they use space and how space influenced them, and we unveil the patterns upon which writing, as an artistic act, may be influenced by the spaces experienced by the creator. Contributors are David W. Bulla, Nathan James Crane, Phil Fitzsimmons, Gail Hammill, Genevieve Jorolan-Quintero, Syeda Hajirah Junaid, Edie Lanphar, Esthir Lemi, Imogen Lesser Woods, Panagiota Mavridou, Sam Meekings, Barış Mete, Ekaterina Midgette, Sevil Nakisli, Layla Roesler, Yadigar Sanli and Shelley Smith.

Table of Contents:
Notes on Contributors List of Images  Introduction  Esthir Lemi, Ekaterina Midgette and Jessie Seymour Part 1: Meeting the Student and the Self  1Writing Ghosty Spaces: Place as Palimpsest  Sam Meekings  2Finding My Writing Space: from Research to Storytelling  Genevieve Jorolan-Quintero  3Attachment or Antithesis? Middle School Children and Writing as Relational Consciousness  Phil Fitzsimmons and Edie Lanphar  4Breathing In; Breathing Out: Writing as a Spiritual Space  Gail Hammill  5Expression of Humour in Persuasive Writing: Developmental Trends and Pedagogical Implication  Ekaterina Midgette and Sevil Nakisli Part 2: Meeting the Master  6Gandhi, the Journalist: When, Where, How, and What He Wrote  David W. Bulla  7Challenges of Physical and Psychological Spaces Faced by Three Generations of Writers in the 20th and 21st Century in the Sub-Continent, South Asia, and in Pakistan  Syeda Hajirah Junaid  8Writing as the Philosopher: Murdoch and the Theory  Barış Mete  9Poetry as Place: the ‘Vrai Lieu’ in the Work of Yves Bonnefoy  Layla Roesler  10Timeless and Spaceless Writer: the Case of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi  Yadigar Sanli Part 3: Meeting the Artist  11In-Movement: Spatiotextual Inscriptions  Panagiota Mavridou  12At the Crossroads: Writing Spaces between Academia and Embodiment  Shelley Smith  13The Artist as a Writer  Esthir Lemi  14Exploring the Written Wor(l)d: Writing As a Spatial Practice  Nathan James Crane  15The Literary Spaces of Mervyn Peake’s The Gormenghast Trilogy Used as a Foundation for Architectural Exploration  Imogen Lesser Woods  Index

About the Author :
Esthir Lemi, PhD, teaches at the Athens School of Fine Arts. Her research focuses on documentation of the artistic process and reality, as well as on the complementarity of art forms. Ekaterina Midgette, PhD, is Associate Professor of Literacy Education at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York. Her research interests include argumentative writing instruction and literacy for English Language Learners. Jessica Seymour, PhD, is an Australian researcher and lecturer at HU University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht. Her recent publications range in topic from fan studies, to Doctor Who, to ecocriticism in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.