Creative Writing and the Radical

Teaching and Learning the Fiction of the Future

By (author) Nigel Krauth

Publication date:

18 July 2016

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

210x148mm
6x8"

ISBN-13: 9781783095926

The rise of digital publishing and the ebook has opened up an array of possibilities for the writer working with innovation in mind. Creative Writing and the Radical uses an examination of how experimental writers in the past have explored the possibilities of multimodal writing to theorise the nature of writing fiction in the future. It is clear that experimental writers rehearsed for technological advances long before they were invented. Through an in-depth study of writers and their motivations, challenges and solutions, the author explores the shifts creative writing teachers and students will need to make in order to adapt to a new era of fiction writing and reading.

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. The Concept of the Radical in Writing

2. The Radical in the 20th Century

3. Radical Experiments 1: Words

4. Radical Experiments 2: The Page, the Book

5. Radical Experiments 3: Narrative, Visuals, Sound

6. Experiments in Writing for Children

7. Fiction and the Future

8. Teaching and Learning the New Creative Writing

References

Nigel Krauth’s Creative Writing and the Radical is itself a radical intervention in creative writing studies. Krauth gives an incisive account of the history of experimental fiction, and argues cogently for a multimodal, non-linear and technological approach to creative writing. This landmark book brings the creative writing classroom into the digital and multimedia era.