Teaching Creative Writing

✍ Scribed by Heather Beck (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 200
• Series: Teaching the New English
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Teaching Creative Writing includes lively contributions from 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Front Matter....Pages 7-8
A Short History of Creative Writing in British Universities....Pages 9-16
A Short History of Creative Writing in America....Pages 17-24
On the Reform of Creative Writing....Pages 25-33
Front Matter....Pages 35-36
Creative Writing and Creative Reading in the Poetry Workshop....Pages 37-43
The Irrational Element in the Undergraduate Poetry Workshop: Beyond Craft....Pages 44-50
The Creative Writing Workshop: a Survival Kit....Pages 51-59
Front Matter....Pages 61-63
Undergraduate Creative Writing Provision in the UK: Origins, Trends and Student Views....Pages 65-72
Undergraduate Creative Writing in the United States: Buying In Isn’t Selling Out....Pages 73-79
Hidden Purposes of Undergraduate Creative Writing: Power, Self and Knowledge....Pages 80-85
No Factories, Please — We’re Writers....Pages 86-91
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
Teaching Creative Writing at Postgraduate Levels: the Sheffield Hallam Experience....Pages 95-98
Creative Writing and Ph.D. Research....Pages 99-103
A Critique of Postgraduate Workshops and a Case for Low-Residency MFAs....Pages 104-107
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
Reflections on Reflection: Supplementary Discourses in Creative Writing Teaching in the UK....Pages 111-115
The Lynchpin in the Workshop: Student Critique and Reflection....Pages 116-120
From Wales to Vermont – A Round Trip – a Personal Reflection on Creative Writing in the USA and the UK....Pages 121-127
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
Thinking Systematically About What We Do....Pages 131-135
Re … creation, Critique, Catalysis: Critical-creative Rewriting in Theory and Practice....Pages 136-142
Couplings, Matings, Hybridizations: What Writers Can Gain from Critical Theory....Pages 143-148
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Assessment of Poetry in Higher Education Courses: What Are the Limits?....Pages 151-155
Assessment as Empowerment: Grading Entry-Level Creative Writing Students....Pages 156-159
Ranking Student Writing as Bad Pedagogy and a Bogus Pretence of Objectivity....Pages 160-165
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
New Tools for Timeless Work: Technological Advances in Creative Writing Pedagogy....Pages 169-173
Lancaster University’s Creative Writing MA by Distance Learning....Pages 174-178
Back Matter....Pages 179-198

✦ Subjects

Teaching and Teacher Education; Literary Theory; Cultural Theory; Literature, general; Creative Writing; Arts Education