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Muriel Spark’s ‘informed air’: the auditory imagination and the voices of fiction (2018)
Journal Article
Waugh, P. (2018). Muriel Spark’s ‘informed air’: the auditory imagination and the voices of fiction. Textual Practice, 32(9), 1633-1658. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2018.1533171

‘Events occur in my mind’, Spark has written, ‘and I record them’. What does it mean to hear something that isn’t there? Hearing inner speech or sounds, not as silent thoughts but as quasi-perceptual events in the world, confounds settled distinction... Read More about Muriel Spark’s ‘informed air’: the auditory imagination and the voices of fiction.

The Novel as Therapy: Ministrations of Voice in an Age of Risk (2015)
Journal Article
Waugh, P. (2015). The Novel as Therapy: Ministrations of Voice in an Age of Risk. Journal of the British Academy, 3, 35-68. https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/003.035

Examining relations between 'therapy culture' and the 'risk society', this essay suggests that the novel developed to offer a powerful workout for the kinds of socio-cognitive capacities and gratifications required by the complex and 'emergent' cultu... Read More about The Novel as Therapy: Ministrations of Voice in an Age of Risk.