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Changing Creative Writing in America : Strengths, Weaknesses, Possibilities / ed. by Graeme Harper.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: New Writing ViewpointsPublisher: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781783098811
  • 9781783098828
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808/.042071173 23
LOC classification:
  • PE1405.U6 C47 2018eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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