Toward an inclusive creative writing : threshold concepts to guide the literary curriculum / Janelle Adsit, Humboldt State University, USA.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adsit, Janelle, author.

Series:

War, culture and society.

War, culture and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creative writing (Higher education).

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 pages)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The creative writing workshop has existed since the early part of the 20th century, but does it adequately serve the students who come to it today? While the workshop is often thought of as a form of student-centered pedagogy, it turns out that workshop conversations serve to marginalize a range of aesthetic orientations and the cultural histories to which they belong. Given the shifting demographics of higher education, it is time to re-evaluate the creative writing curriculum and move literary writing pedagogy toward a more inclusive, equitable model. Toward an Inclusive Creative Writing makes the argument that creative writing stands upon problematic assumptions about what counts as valid artistic production, and these implicit beliefs result in exclusionary pedagogical practices. To counter this tendency of creative writing, this book proposes a revised curriculum that rests upon 12 threshold concepts that can serve to transform the teaching of literary writing craft."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction: Discussions of Diversity and Inclusion in Creative Writing ; Threshold Concepts to Guide the Literary Writing Curriculum ; Toward an Inclusive Creative Writing Pedagogy

1. Privileged Assumptions and Assumptions of Privilege: What the VIDA Count Tells about Teaching ; Exclusionary Constructions of the Writer's Life ; Finding a Voice ; The Lonely Writer ; Leisure and Unalienated Labor ; The Writer as Exceptional ; Mapping Pedagogical Constructions of the Writer ; Progressive Pedagogical Approaches ; Humanist Pedagogical Approaches ; Professionalizing Pedagogical Approaches ; Auditioning Pedagogical Approaches ; Experimental Pedagogical Approaches ; Therapeutic Pedagogical Approaches ; Populism and Elitism in Creative Writing ; Exclusionary Assumptions about Writers and Writing

2. Marginalized Aesthetics: Policing Intention: Polemics against Polemics ; Policing Taste: Ideologies of Craft ; Policing Emotion: Scorn of Excess ; The Diversity of the Textual Landscape

3. The Threshold Concepts in Creative Writing. Concept 1: Attention ; Concept 2: Creativity ; Concept 3: Authorship ; Concept 4: Language ; Concept 5: Genre ; Concept 6: Craft ; Concept 7: Community ; Concept 8: Evaluation ; Concept 9: Representation ; Concept 10: Resistance ; Concept 11: Theory ; Concept 12: Revision ; Threshold Concepts and Learning Outcomes

4. Toward an Inclusive Pedagogy. Starting Points ; Reading ; Workshop ; Evaluation and Grading

Coda: Reimagining Creative Writing's Institutional Practices

Appendix A - List of Craft Texts Surveyed in Chapters One and Two

Appendix B - Sample Syllabus

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

CC BY-NC-ND

ISBN:

9781350023895

1350023892

9781350023871

1350023876

9781350023888

1350023884

OCLC:

995849852

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access