TY - BOOK AU - Bailey,Christine AU - Bizzaro,Patrick AU - Donnelly,Dianne AU - Ferraiolo,Angela AU - Haake,Katharine AU - Harper,Graeme AU - Horner,Bruce AU - Kostelnik,Kate AU - Mayers,Tim AU - Moxley,Joe AU - Peary,Alexandria AU - Rein,Joseph AU - Vanderslice,Stephanie TI - Changing Creative Writing in America: Strengths, Weaknesses, Possibilities T2 - New Writing Viewpoints SN - 9781783098811 AV - PE1405.U6 C47 2018eb U1 - 808/.042071173 23 PY - 2017///] CY - Bristol, Blue Ridge Summit : PB - Multilingual Matters, KW - Authorship KW - Study and teaching (Higher) KW - United States KW - Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) KW - Creative writing (Higher education) KW - English language KW - Rhetoric KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / General KW - bisacsh KW - Composition KW - Creative Writing Studies KW - Creative composition KW - Creative writing KW - Teaching KW - Writing KW - creative writing workshop KW - literary KW - pedagogy N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword. Reconstruction: On the Road Toward a More Sustainable Future --; Introduction: The Possibilities for Creative Writing in America --; 1.Histories and Historiography in Creative Writing Studies --; 2.Writing as Spiritual Practice --; 3.We Serve Writing Here --; 4.Theory and Pedagogy in Introductory Writing Textbooks: Creative Writing Leads the Way --; 5.The Print Doctrine --; 6.The Convergence of Creative Writing Processes and Their Neurological Mapping --; 7.Rewriting Creative Writing --; 8.Toward an Interdisciplinary Creative Writing --; 9.Creative Writing in First-Year Writing: Let's Remember, or Re-teach, the Value of Fiction --; 10.Against Appropriation: Creative Writing in/and the Making of Knowledge --; Contributors --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - In this compelling collection of essays contributors critically examine Creative Writing in American Higher Education. Considering Creative Writing teaching, learning and knowledge, the book recognizes historical strengths and weaknesses. The authors cover topics ranging from the relationship between Creative Writing and Composition and Literary Studies to what it means to write and be a creative writer; from new technologies and neuroscience to the nature of written language; from job prospects and graduate study to the values of creativity; from moments of teaching to persuasive ideas and theories; from interdisciplinary studies to the qualifications needed to teach Creative Writing in contemporary Higher Education. Most of all it explores the possibilities for the future of Creative Writing as an academic subject in America UR - https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783098828 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781783098828 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781783098828/original ER -