The creativity market : creative writing in the 21st century / edited by Dominique Hecq.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hecq, Dominique.

Series:

New writing viewpoints ; 8.

New writing viewpoints ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creative writing--Study and teaching.

Creative writing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, 2012.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book focuses on creative writing both as a subject in universities and beyond academia, with chapters arranged around three organising sub-themes of practice, research and pedagogy. It explores the ‘creative’ component of creative writing in the globalised marketplace, making the point that creative writing occurs in and around universities throughout the world. It examines the convergence of education, globalisation and economic discourses at the intersection of the university sector and creative industries, and foregrounds the competing interests at the core of creativity as it appears in the neo-liberal global discourse in which writers are enmeshed. The book offers case studies from the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia and Singapore that are indicative of the challenges faced by academics, postgraduate students and creative industry professionals around the world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Contributors

Acknowledgements

In Lieu of a Preface

Introduction

1. Creative Writing: The Ghost, the University and the Future

2. Banking on Creativity: My Brilliant? Career

3. Creativity and the Marketplace

4. The Publishing Paradigm: Commercialism versus Creativity

5. As Good As It Gets? National Research Evaluations

6. Creative Writing, Neo-Liberalism and the Literary Paradigm

7. Nothing is Free in this Life

8. The Ghost in the Machine: Creative Writing and its Malcontents

9. Creativity, Compromise and Waking Up with the Funding Devil

10. Entering the Fictitious: A Play in Two Acts

11. Using the Spectrum to Theorise Apparent Opposition in Creative Writing Doctorates

12. Outlying the Point that Tips: Bridging Academia and Business

13. Selling It: Creative Writing and the Public Good

14. On the Commercialisation of Creativity in the Merlion State

Afterword: Creativity, the Market and the Globalisation Challenge

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613806888

9781847697127

1847697127

9781282134300

1282134302

9781847697110

1847697119

OCLC:

806204970