Negotiating the Personal in Creative Writing / / Carl Vandermeulen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Vandermeulen, Carl,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: New Writing Viewpoints
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

This book describes an alternative way to teach Creative Writing, one that replaces the silent writer taking criticism and advice from the teacher-led workshop with an active writer who reflects upon and publically questions the work-in-progress in order to solicit response, from a writers' group as well as from the teacher. Both accompany the writer, first as readers and fellow writers, only later as critics. Because writers ask, they listen, and dialogues with responders become an inner dialogue that guides later writing and revision. But when teachers accompany writers, teaching CW becomes even more a negotiation of the personal because this teacher who is listener and mentor is also a model for some students of the writer and even the person they would like to become - and still the Authority who gives the grades.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Negotiating the Personal and Interpersonal -- Chapter 1. Considering Where We’re Coming From -- Chapter 2. The Workshop: ‘More or Less Unfortunate Misunderstandings’ -- Chapter 3. Reflection and the Dialogic Self -- Chapter 4. Response in Writers’ Groups -- Chapter 5. Teacher Response to Student Writing -- Chapter 6. Negotiating Authority as Teachers, Models, Mentors -- Chapter 7. Problems and Crises in Relationships -- Chapter 8. Resolving Dilemmas of Grading -- Chapter 9. Constructing the Practice and Identity of ‘Writer’ -- References