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Imagining Imagined Spaces
This review of a book of essays exploring the range of forms possible within creative critical thinking was supposed to appear in a briefer form sometime last year but, for whatever reason, did not. It acts as a sort of … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Ronnie Mackintosh, Creative Criticism, Creative Writing, Duncan MacLean, Dundee, Dundee University, Gail Low, Glenn Gould, Kengo Kuma, Kenny Taylor, Kirsty Gunn, Lorens Holm, Meaghan Delahunt, Montaigne, Nine Arches Press, Patrick Geddes, Paul Noble, Philip Lopate, Susan Nickalls, The Idea of North, The V&A, The Voyage Out, Zen, Zenimalism
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Heroic/Homiletic (you choose) Addendum
(Following on from the previous post, I’d expanded slightly on the enigmatic reference at the end to my own writing, but realised in that context it was digressive. Here, however, it’s part of the estranged brew of published, unpublished, retro- … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholicism, Crete, Dundee, Emmanuel Tzanes, Giorgios Chortatzis, Henry the Eighth, Heraklion, John Knox, Lutheranism, Mandelshtam, Montaigne, Robert Wedderburn, Shostakovich, The Complaynt of Scotlande, The Ottoman Empire, The Rough Wooing, Venice, Vitzentos Kornaros
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The Academy of Errors?
News of the death of the very playful, very questioning ‘scul?tor’ George Wylie has made me think again about this wry, almost Socratic strain in the Scottish mind, as evidenced by figures as diverse as Wylie himself, Ivor Cutler, Chic … Continue reading
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Tagged Chic Murray, George Wylie, Ivor Cutler, MIB, Montaigne, Norman MacCaig, R.D. Laing, Toy Story, Vincent D'Onofrio
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