Changing Creative Writing in America : : Strengths, Weaknesses, Possibilities / / ed. by Graeme Harper.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Bailey, Christine,; Bizzaro, Patrick,; Donnelly, Dianne,; Ferraiolo, Angela,; Haake, Katharine,; Harper, Graeme,; Horner, Bruce,; Kostelnik, Kate,; Mayers, Tim,; Moxley, Joe,; Peary, Alexandria,; Rein, Joseph,; Vanderslice, Stephanie,
• HerausgeberIn: Harper, Graeme,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: New Writing Viewpoints
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword. Reconstruction: On the Road Toward a More Sustainable Future -- Introduction: The Possibilities for Creative Writing in America -- 1.Histories and Historiography in Creative Writing Studies -- 2.Writing as Spiritual Practice -- 3.We Serve Writing Here -- 4.Theory and Pedagogy in Introductory Writing Textbooks: Creative Writing Leads the Way -- 5.The Print Doctrine -- 6.The Convergence of Creative Writing Processes and Their Neurological Mapping -- 7.Rewriting Creative Writing -- 8.Toward an Interdisciplinary Creative Writing -- 9.Creative Writing in First-Year Writing: Let's Remember, or Re-teach, the Value of Fiction -- 10.Against Appropriation: Creative Writing in/and the Making of Knowledge -- Contributors -- Index