Resumen de Writing Perceptions: The Matter of Words and the Rollright Stones
This essay is concerned with art history as a form of creative writing, and with sensory perception in relation to a late Neolithic stone circle that forms part of the Rollright Stones in Oxfordshire, themes that are explored through a series of fragments and reflections. The essay considers the insights that oral history can provide into an imagined prehistoric reception of the stone circle. It also examines what roles hearing, seeing, smell, taste and touch may have played for visitors to Rollright in the Neolithic period. The importance attached to substances such as stone and wood in prehistoric ritual is also addressed. The essay additionally suggests that a creative approach towards writing can disrupt habitual attitudes towards works of art. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
