Wandor, Michelene,

The author is not dead, merely somewhere else : creative writing reconceived / Michelene Wandor. - ix, 246 pages ; 23 cm

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.

1403934193 1403934207 9781403934192 9781403934208

2008015887


Creative writing (Higher education)
Creative writing--Study and teaching
Creative writing (Higher education)--Great Britain
Creative writing--Study and teaching--Great Britain
English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher)--Great Britain.

PE1404 / .W36 2008

808.042071141