The Writing Experiment: Strategies for innovative creative writing

ISBN-13: 9781741140156 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 304 str.

Hazel Smith

Opis

This demystifying guide to creative writing shows that successful work arises not from talent or inspiration alone but from several stages of development within a systematic strategy. Recommending an exploratory approach to writing, this book offers practical exercises that bring exceptional creative writing within reach. Each chapter is illustrated with extensive examples of student work and published writing including fiction, poetry, plays, performance, and new media.

Recenzje

'A systematic and engaging approach to creative writing' - Carla Harryman, Wayne State University

By suggesting that students who are not born poets can yet learn to become good ones, Smith performs a very important service.' - Professor Susan M. Schultz, University of Hawaii

This is an impressive book, because it covers areas of creative writing practice and theory that have not been covered in published form It links radical practice with radical (but better-known) theory, and will appeal to anyone looking for a different approach ' - Robert Sheppard, Edge Hill College of Higher Education, UK

Spis treści

Preface

Introduction

Part 1: Introductory strategies

Chapter 1: Playing with language, running with referents

Chapter 2: Genre as a moveable feast

Chapter 3: Working out with structures

Chapter 4: Writing as recycling

Chapter 5: Narrative, narratology, power

Chapter 6: Dialoguing

Part 2: Advanced strategies

Chapter 7: Postmodern f(r)ictions

Chapter 8: Postmodern poetry, avant-garde poetics

Chapter 9: The invert, the cross-dresser, the fictocritic

Chapter 10: Tongues, talk and technologies

Chapter 11: New media travels

Chapter 12: Mapping worlds, moving cities

Conclusion: The ongoing editor

Acknowledgments

Index

O autorze

Hazel Smith is Senior Research Fellow in the School of Creative Communication, University of Canberra, Co-leader of the Sonic Communications Research Group and Deputy Director of the University of Canberra Centre for Writing. She founded the creative writing program at the University of New South Wales. She is author of Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara and co-author of Improvisation, Hypermedia and the Arts Since 1945. She has published two books of poetry, two CDs of performance work and numerous multimedia and hypermedia works.