New Writing Scholarship

Studying Creative Writing
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-85446-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 504 g

This book provides engaging insights into the evolution and scope of the critical study of creative writing. The wide range of chapters included reveals analyzes done as the field of Creative Writing Studies further emerged and grew across the world. The book explores investigative methods and pedagogical thinking that has excitingly shaped and is shaping the critical and practice-led study of creative writing, particularly in higher education.

This volume is relevant for both students and scholars interested in creative writing, particularly those who are interested in creative writing teaching and learning. The chapters in the book were originally published as articles and editorials in the New Writing journal and are accompanied by a new Introduction and Conclusion and a Foreword by well-known Creative Writing Studies scholar Dianne Donnelly.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harper, Graeme

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Schreiben und Publizieren, Kreatives Schreiben

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Introduction: Speculative Learning in Creative Writing 1. The Resurrected Author: Creative Writers in 21st-century Higher Education 2. The Creative Writing Doctorate: Creative Trial or Academic Error? 3. The Value of Creative Writing Assignments in English Literature Courses 4. Responsive Critical Understanding: Towards a Creative Writing Treatise 5. Establishing a Metanarrative in Creative/Academic Writing: An Exercise to Help Students with Writing 6. Creative Writing: 40 Years, 400 Years, 4000 Years. 7. The Student Muse: Creative Ways of Teaching Talent 8. A Typology of Creative Writing 9. From Enjoyment to Critical Thinking: A Journey of Developing Creativity and Critical Awareness in Story Writing in a Melanesian Community 10. Creative Writing: The Human Event 11. Interactive Narrative Pedagogy as a Heuristic for Understanding Supervision in Practice-led Research 12. Several Faces of Creative Writing 13. Heidegger, Creativity, and what Poets do: On Living in a Silent Shack for Three Months and not Going Mad 14. Bookstores, a Celebration 15. On Learning, Teaching and the Pursuit of Creative Writing in Singapore and Hong Kong 16. The Danger of the Sanitary 17. A Shaggy Beast from a Baggy Monster 18. In Celebration of Names 19. ‘Finding the Through-line’: A Portrait of an Innovative Creative Writing Organisation 20. How Does Creative Writing Sound? Conclusion: Possibility

Über Autor(innen)

Graeme Harper is Editor of New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing. He is author of such books as Critical Approaches to Creative Writing (2018) and Creative Writing Analysis (2022) and, as Brooke Biaz, the novel Releasing the Animals (2023), among many others.