Teaching creative writing / edited by Heather Beck.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beck, Heather, 1965-

Series:

Teaching the new English

Teaching the New English series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creative writing--Study and teaching.

Creative writing.

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

English language.

Physical Description:

xiv, 198 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave MacMillian, 2012.

Summary:

Teaching Creative Writing includes lively contributions from over two dozen leading practitioners in the field. Topics addressed include history of Creative Writing, workshops, undergraduate, postgraduate, reflective activities, assessment, critical theory, and information technology.

Contents:

A short history of creative writing in British universities / Graeme Harper

A short history of creative writing in America / DeWitt Henry

On the reform of creative writing / David G. Myers

Creative writing and creative reading in the poetry workshop / Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Jena Osman

The irrational element in the undergraduate poetry workshop: beyond craft / Gary Hawkins

The creative writing workshop: a survival kit / Michelene Wandor

Undergraduate creative writing provision in the UK: origins, trends and student views / Steve May

Undergraduate creative writing in the United States: buying in isn't selling out / Anna Leahy

Hidden purposes of undergraduate creative writing: power, self and knowledge / Hans Ostrom

No factories, please

-we're writers / Maureen Freely

Teaching creative writing at postgraduate levels: the Sheffield Hallam Experience / Steven Earnshaw

Creative writing and Ph. D. research / Jon Cook

A critique of postgraduate workshops and a case for low-residency MFAs / Robin Hemley

Reflections on reflection: supplementary discourses in creative writing teaching in the UK / Robert Sheppard

The lynchpin in the workshop: student critique and reflection / Stephanie Vanderslice

From Wales to Vermont

-a round trip

-a personal reflection on creative writing in the USA and the UK / Tony Curtis

Thinking systematically about what we do / Katharine Haake

Re ... creation, critique, catalysis: critical-creative rewriting in theory and practice / Rob Pope

Couplings, matings, hybridizations: what writers can gain from critical theory / Kim Lasky

Assessment of poetry in higher education courses: what are the limits? Michael Symmons Roberts

Assessment as empowerment: grading entry-level creative writing students / Mary Cantrell

Ranking student writing as bad pedagogy and a bogus pretence of objectivity / Stephen O'Connor

New tools for timeless work: technological advances in creative writing pedagogy / John A. Nieves and Joseph Moxley

Lancaster University's creative writing MA by distance learning / Graham Mort.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230240087

0230240089

9780230240070

0230240070

OCLC:

798407487