Towards a Poetics of Creative Writing / / Dominique Hecq.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Hecq, Dominique,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: New Writing Viewpoints
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

This book offers an in-depth study of the poetics of creative writing as a subject in the dramatically changing context of practice as research, taking into account the importance of the subjectivity of the writer as researcher. It explores creative writing and theory while offering critical antecedents, theoretical directions and creative interchanges. The book narrows the focus on psychoanalysis, particularly with regard to Lacan and creative practice, and demonstrates that creative writing is research in its own right. The poetics at stake neither denotes the study or the techniques of poetry, but rather the means by which writers formulate and discuss attitudes to their work.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Making of a Poetics -- 1. What Poetics for Creative Writing? -- 2. Critical Antecedents, Theoretical Directions -- 3. Obituaries, Contestations, Proclamations: The Theory Question -- 4. Craft, Knowledge, Theory and the Designing of Poetics -- 5. Styling the Subject of Creative Writing -- 6. The Ego in the Mirror -- 7. Between Thought and the Real in Creative Writing and Philosophy -- 8. Inking the In-Between -- 9. On Experiential Knowing as Creative Writing Research Mode -- 10. Dramatic Encounters: Language, Craft, Theory -- 11. Food for Thought: Investigating Aesthetic Care -- 12. Poetics of Auto-Genesis: On Becoming and the Canon -- Afterword: Poetic (A)Topos -- Bibliography -- Index