Towards a poetics of creative writing / Dominique Hecq.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hecq, Dominique, author.

Series:

New writing viewpoints ; 10.

New writing viewpoints ; 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creative writing--Study and teaching.

Creative writing.

Authorship.

Physical Description:

x, 246 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bristol ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, [2015]

Summary:

This book offers an in-depth study on 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 What Poetics for Creative Writing 11

2 Critical Antecedents, Theoretical Directions 29

3 Obituaries, Contestations, Proclamations: The Theory Question 45

4 Craft, Knowledge, Theory and the Designing of Poetics 64

5 Styling the Subject of Creative Writing 78

6 The Ego in the Mirror 96

7 Between Thought and the Real in Creative Writing and Philosophy 121

8 Inking the In-Between 137

9 On Experiential Knowing as Creative Writing Research Mode 155

10 Dramatic Encounters: Language, Craft, Theory 168

11 Food for Thought: Investigating Aesthetic Care 182

12 Poetics of Auto-Genesis: On Becoming and the Canon 198.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781783093229

1783093226

9781783093212

1783093218

OCLC:

892964327