In 1857, James John Garth Wilkinson published Improvisations from the Spirit, a collection of poetry conceived as an experiment with “automatic writing,” which the author claimed was guided by the ...

French-Canadian composer Claude Vivier (1948-1983) is one of the few composers, perhaps the only one, to use an invented language throughout his entire compositional career. Vivie's use of what he ...

When writing requires conscious physical effort, it can be difficult to simultaneously remember grammar and spelling rules and keep up with classroom note-taking. Two students and a teacher talk to Dr ...