Might the first-person critical-creative voice be a marker not of identification with one’s subject, nor of the collapsing of critical distance, but rather a different kind of creative act that affords new critical possibilities?
A day spent writing, arranging, and rearranging shadows.
What can we make out of it – make it into – what can I make out of this – squint and the blurred edges refine, slightly, pinch my forefingers and thumbs together and raise them to my eyes to telescope, to focus
If asked to describe what creative non-fiction is, Jack Parlett would jokingly respond: ‘the thing you write when you’re supposed to be writing about something else.’
These notes, which I took during the What Is Creative Criticism? colloquium, were not my finest intellectual jottings. They would provide scant material for the unfortunate doctoral student in 2074 researching the notebooks and methods of early 21st-century comparatists.
At some point after you grow up, you begin to see people in your memories of others.
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