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The author is not dead, merely somewhere else : creative writing reconceived / Michelene Wandor.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008Description: ix, 246 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1403934193
  • 1403934207
  • 9781403934192
  • 9781403934208
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.042071141 22
LOC classification:
  • PE1404 .W36 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
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 belles-lettres to literary criticism -- Secular intellectuals after the Second World War -- Textual politics in English studies and after the Second World War -- Creative writing professionalised: summary: the story so far -- Play and pedagogy: creativity and creative writing -- Creative writing: a literature of its own -- The literature: household tips and recipe books -- The workshop and the emperor's clothes -- Comparative approaches in other art forms: art school and conservatoire -- Literary criticism: value judgments 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.
Summary: Wandor has written a history of creative writing in the UK, analysing its complex relationship with English and literary theory.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-237) and index.

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 belles-lettres to literary criticism -- Secular intellectuals after the Second World War -- Textual politics in English studies and after the Second World War -- Creative writing professionalised: summary: the story so far -- Play and pedagogy: creativity and creative writing -- Creative writing: a literature of its own -- The literature: household tips and recipe books -- The workshop and the emperor's clothes -- Comparative approaches in other art forms: art school and conservatoire -- Literary criticism: value judgments 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.

Wandor has written a history of creative writing in the UK, analysing its complex relationship with English and literary theory.

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