Can creative writing really be taught? : resisting lore in creative writing pedagogy / Edited by Stephanie Vanderslice and Rebecca Manery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vanderslice, Stephanie, Editor.

Contributor:

Vanderslice, Stephanie, editor.

Manery, Rebecca, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creative writing (Higher education).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 pages)

Edition:

Tenth anniversary edition.

Place of Publication:

Bloomsbury Publishing 2017

Summary:

Revised and updated throughout, this 10th-anniversary edition of Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught? is a significantly expanded guide to key issues and practices in creative writing teaching today. Challenging the myths of creative writing teaching, experienced and up-and-coming teachers explore what works in the classroom and workshop and what does not. Now brought up-to-date with new issues that have emerged with the explosion of creative writing courses in higher education, the new edition includes: · Guides to and case studies of workshop practice · Discussions on grading and the myth of "the easy A" · Explorations of the relationship between reading and writing · A new chapter on creative writing research · A new chapter on games, fan-fiction and genre writing · New chapters on identity and activism

Contents:

List of Contributors Section One: Can it Really be Taught? Influential Essays Revisited by Their Authors Introduction-Lore Past, Present, and Future: The Tenth Anniversary of Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught? Stephanie Vanderslice 1 (Re)Figuring the Future: Lore, Creative Writing Studies, and Institutional Histories Tim Mayers 2 Against Reading, 2: Or, Writing Starts Here Reconsidered Katharine Haake 3 Revisiting Charming Tyrants and Faceless Facilitators: The Lore of Teaching Identities in Creative Writing Mary Ann Cain 4 "It's such a good feeling": Self-Esteem, the Growth Mindset, and Creative Writing Anna Leahy 5 Finding Truth in the Gaps: A Hybrid Text Patrick Bizzaro 6 Box Office Poison: The Influence of Writers in Films on Writers (in Graduate Programs) Wendy Bishop and Stephen B. Armstrong Section Two: The Future of Creative Writing Lore: New Voices, New Challenges 7 The Traces of Certain Collisions: Contemporary Writing and Old Tropes Jen Webb 8 Lore 2.0: Creative Writing as History Phil Sandick 9 "We don't need no creative writing": Black Cultural Capital, Social (In)Justice, and the Devaluing of Creativity in Higher Education Tonya C. Hegemin 10 Genre Fiction, and Games, and Fanfiction! Oh My!: Competing Realities in Creative Writing Classrooms Trent Hergenrader 11 Disability Culture and Creative Writing Pedagogies: When having Fun Together is Radical Practice Petra Kuppers 12 Polemics Against Polemics: Reconsidering Didacticism in Creative Writing Janelle Adsit 13 "It's my story and I'll revise if I want to": Rethinking Authorship Through Collaborative Workshop Practices Joseph Rein 14 Toward a Digital Historiography of Creative Writing Programs in Our Millennium Ben Ristow 15 Investigating Creative Writing: Challenging Obstacles to Empirical Research Greg Light 16 Creative Writing with Godzilla: Welcoming the Monster to your Creative Writing Classroom Graeme Harper 17 Myths, Mirrors, and Metaphors: The Education of the Creative Writing Teacher Rebecca Manery

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781474285070

1474285074

9781474285063

1474285066