Changing Creative Writing in America Strengths, Weaknesses, Possibilities

by Harper, Graeme

• ISBN13: 9781783098811
• ISBN10: 1783098813
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2017-10-31
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Summary

In this compelling collection of essays contributors critically examine Creative Writing in American Higher Education. Considering Creative Writing teaching, learning and knowledge, the book recognizes historical strengths and weaknesses. The authors cover topics ranging from the relationship between Creative Writing and Composition and Literary Studies to what it means to write and be a creative writer; from new technologies and neuroscience to the nature of written language; from job prospects and graduate study to the values of creativity; from moments of teaching to persuasive ideas and theories; from interdisciplinary studies to the qualifications needed to teach Creative Writing in contemporary Higher Education. Most of all it explores the possibilities for the future of Creative Writing as an academic subject in America.

Author Biography

Graeme Harper is a Professor of Creative Writing and Dean of The Honors College at Oakland University in Michigan, USA. An award-winning fiction writer, and former Commonwealth scholar in Creative Writing, he has published widely on Creative Writing and its development as an academic discipline. He is Editor of the journal New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing and is Editor-In-Chief of the book series New Writing Viewpoints. His latest work of fiction is The Japanese Cook (Parlor, 2017). In 2015 he edited Creative Writing and Education (Multilingual Matters).

Table of Contents

Joe Moxley: Foreword
1. Graeme Harper: Introduction: The Possibilities for Creative Writing in America
2. Alexandria Peary: Histories and Historiography in Creative Writing Studies
3. Katharine Haake: Writing as Spiritual Practice
4. Tim Mayers: We Serve Writing Here
5. Stephanie Vanderslice: Theory and Pedagogy in Introductory Writing Textbooks: Creative Writing Leads the Way
6. Angela Ferraiolo: The Print Doctrine
7. Bruce Horner: Rewriting Creative Writing
8. Dianne Donnelly: The Convergence of Creative Processes and Its Neurological Mapping
9. Joseph Rein: Toward an Interdisciplinary Creative Writing
10. Kate Kostelnik: Creative Writing in First-Year Writing: Let's Remind, or Re-teach, the Value of Fiction
11. Christine Bailey and Patrick Bizzaro: Against Appropriation: Creative Writing and the Making of Knowledge
Author Biographies
Index