Diana Papas Diana Papas i(8790414 works by) (a.k.a. Diana Marietta Papas)
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1 Κάποιος Γέροντας i "I found an old photograph in the drawer of my mother’s Singer, slipped behind cotton reels of yellow, red", Diana Papas , 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , September no. 114 2024;
1 Ekphrasis of the Default Mode : Simulating Past, Future and Fictional Worlds Diana Papas , 2024 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , vol. 28 no. 1 2024; 'Perspectives on ekphrasis theory are advancing cognitive approaches. Despite this, the science of the brain’s default mode network rarely emerges in cognitive literary studies or ekphrasis discussion. When left unfocused, the brain in its default mode tends to ruminate on the past, speculate about the future, daydream about unlikely events and analyse the meaning of what others might say or think. The memory-imagination system, also referred to as “mental time travel”, helps us construct simulations of past, future and/or fictional events. This essay proposes an understanding of ekphrasis which engages activities of mental time travel and simulation to help render experience in the minds of readers/writers. This paper does not venture into the neuroscience debate, but rather, it explores the brain’s default mode in the contexts of ekphrasis criticism and cognitive literary studies. I refer to Jessica Au’s novella Cold Enough for Snow (2022) to illustrate examples of ekphrasis writing which – through the depiction of art, objects and images (imagined or real) – engages the systems of mental time travel and simulation to interpret complexities of the world and help render perceptual experiences in the narrative imagining.' (Publication abstract)
1 Tomb of the Diver i "When I was not older than twelve, I left the cocoons of silk on the farm, sweeping the trails of filament behind, I passed between barley", Diana Papas , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Aletheia Literary Quarterly , Spring no. 3 2021;
1 Kalamos i "I begin as though I were among the sleepless, blind to the world, a fugitive", Diana Papas , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Aletheia Literary Quarterly , Spring no. 3 2021;
1 Nocturne Diana Papas , 2021 single work short story
— Appears in: Aletheia Literary Quarterly , Autumn no. 1 2021;
1 Mnimósino Diana Papas , 2021 single work short story
— Appears in: Overland , no. 240 2021;
1 Pore Bearers Diana Papas , 2019 single work short story
— Appears in: Meniscus , April vol. 7 no. 1 2019; (p. 121-133)
1 Taximi Diana Papas , 2017 single work short story
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 77 no. 2 2017; (p. 11-21)
1 The Fonissa Diana Papas , 2015 single work short story
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 75 no. 1 2015; Aletheia Literary Quarterly , Winter no. 2 2021;
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