Diane Purkiss

List of John Benjamins publications in which Diane Purkiss is involved.

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Purkiss, Diane 2024 1.3.1. Writer’s block A Comparative History of the Literary Draft in Europe, Beloborodova, Olga and Dirk Van Hulle (eds.), pp. 229–240 | Sub-chapter
This chapter explores writer’s block by analysing the rewards of the writing process and its causation using a mixture of behaviourism and neuroscience, in an effort to move beyond the idea that writing is about rational intent. In particular, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s theory of flow is used to… read more
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