Creative Writing Studies

Practice, Research and Pedagogy

Edited by Prof. Graeme Harper, Dr. Jeri Kroll

Publication date:

10 December 2007

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

210x148mm
6x8"

ISBN-13: 9781847690203

The chapters in this book range across all three areas of its subtitle practice, research and pedagogy – testifying to the integrated nature of creative writing as a university discipline. Writers from the USA, the UK and Australia concentrate on the most critical issues facing this popular, fast-developing and sometimes embattled area of study: practice-led research in creative writing; the nature of higher degrees; the place of critical/theoretical discourse in the discipline; the best teaching methods at undergraduate and postgraduate levels; and the challenge of creative writers who are also university teachers. These exciting essays, thus, chart creative writing’s evolution as a site of knowledge in the contemporary university.

Introduction - Graeme Harper and Jeri Kroll

1. Creative Writing in the University - Graeme Harper and Jeri Kroll

2. The Novel and the Academic Novel - Nigel Krauth

3. Let Stones Speak: New Media Remediation in the Poetry Writing Classroom - Jake Adam York

4. That Was the Answer. Now What was the Question? The PhD in Creative and Critical Writing - Nessa O’Mahony

5. Six Texts Prefigure a Seventh - Inez Baranay

6. Sleeping With Proust vs. Tinkering Under the Bonnet - Stephanie Vanderslice

7. Workshopping the Workshop and Teaching the Unteachable - Kevin Brophy

8. Creating an Integrated Model for Teaching Creative Writing - One Approach - Nigel McLoughlin

9. Gonzo-Formalism: A Creative Writing Meta-Pedagogy for Non-Traditional Students - Nat Hardy

10. Acting, Interacting, and Acting Up: Teaching Collaborative Creative Practice - Jen Webb

11. Writer as Teacher, Teacher as Writer - Aileen La Tourette

12. Raymond Carver’s Suppressed Research and the Apologetic Short Story - Rob Mimpriss

13. A Translator’s Tale - Gregory Fraser

14. Afterword - David Fenza

"This is a great book, and perfect for anyone interested in creative writing - whether you're a creative writer teaching creative writing or you are a student creative writer This book is readable, thought-provoking and innovative. Wonderful!"