The Author Is Not Dead, Merely Somewhere Else: Creative Writing After Theory

ISBN-13: 9781403934208 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 256 str.

Michelene Wandor

Opis

Wandor has written the first history of Creative Writing in the UK, analyzing its complex relationship with English and literary theory. Erudite and provocative, the book presents a searching critique of Creative Writing pedagogy, arguing for new approaches. Indispensable for teachers, students and everyone concerned with the future of literature.

Spis treści

Introduction: Creative Writing: A success story.- First Histories: Creative writing as cultural and educational intervention.- Autodidacticism and the Politics of Literacy.- Walking with Swinburne: English at Oxbridge.- Watching the Elephants; Creative writing in America.- From Belle-lettres to Literary Criticism.- Secular Intellectuals after World War II.- Textual Politics in English Studies after World War II.- Creative Writing Professionalised: Summary the Story so Far.- Play and Pegagogy: Creativity and Creative Writing.- Creative Writing: A Literature of its Own.- Household Tips and Recipe Books.- The Workshop and the Emperor's Clothes.- Comparative Approaches: Art School and Conservatoire.- Literary Criticism: Value-Judgements and Creative Writing.- Composition and Creative Writing: US Critiques.- Reconceiving Creative Writing: the Author is Not Dead, Merely in Some Other Text.- From Criticism to Theory and On.- Reconceiving Creative Writing: The Materiality of Imaginative Writing.- Literacy, Writing and Textuality.- From Elephants to Kangaroos: Prose Fiction.- Writing Drama.- Poetry and Form.- The Core Genres: Pedagogy.- Imaginative Writing: Summary and the Future.- Epilogue.

O autorze

MICHELENE WANDOR is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at London Metropolitan University, UK, and is a well-known playwright, poet, broadcaster and public intellectual. Her critical publications include Postwar British Drama (Routledge) and she has recently contributed to the English Subject Centre's Creative Writing Good Practice Guidelines.