Towards a Poetics of Creative Writing

By (author) Dr. Dominique Hecq

Publication date:

06 March 2015

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

210x148mm
6x8"

ISBN-13: 9781783093229

This book offers an in-depth study of the poetics of creative writing as a subject in the dramatically changing context of practice as research, taking into account the importance of the subjectivity of the writer as researcher. It explores creative writing and theory while offering critical antecedents, theoretical directions and creative interchanges. The book narrows the focus on psychoanalysis, particularly with regard to Lacan and creative practice, and demonstrates that creative writing is research in its own right. The poetics at stake neither denotes the study or the techniques of poetry, but rather the means by which writers formulate and discuss attitudes to their work.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 What Poetics for Creative Writing?
2 Critical Antecedents, Theoretical Directions
3 Obituaries, Contestations, Proclamations: The Theory Question
4 Craft, Knowledge, Theory, and the Designing of Poetics
5 Styling the Subject of Creative Writing
6 The Ego in the Mirror
7 Between Thought and the Real in Creative Writing and Philosophy
8 Inking the In-between
9 On Experiential Knowing as Creative Writing Research Mode
10 Dramatic Encounters: Language, Craft, Theory
11 Food for Thought: Investigating Aesthetic Care
12 Poetics of Autogenesis: On Becoming and the Canon
Afterword: Poetic (a)Topos

Without Contraries is no progression, says William Blake. And Dominique Hecq agrees, demonstrating how she sets theory and creative practice into active, often disruptive but always productive relation. Hecq’s meditations are at once personal and compendious – through their ultimately deeply pragmatic inquiries and insights, many readers will find, will begin to feel, a way forward, into more significant and thoughtful creative engagements.