Teaching Creative Writing [electronic resource] /
Beck, H.editor.
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.
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Cover; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I: History; 1 A Short History of Creative Writing in British Universities; 2 A Short History of Creative Writing in America; 3 On the Reform of Creative Writing; Part II: Workshops; 4 Creative Writing and Creative Reading in the Poetry Workshop; 5 The Irrational Element in the Undergraduate Poetry Workshop: Beyond Craft; 6 The Creative Writing Workshop: a Survival Kit; Part III: Undergraduate Creative Writing; 7 Undergraduate Creative Writing Provision in the UK: Origins, Trends and Student Views
8 Undergraduate Creative Writing in the United States: Buying In Isn't Selling Out9 Hidden Purposes of Undergraduate Creative Writing: Power, Self and Knowledge; 10 No Factories, Please - We're Writers; Part IV: Postgraduate Creative Writing; 11 Teaching Creative Writing at Postgraduate Levels: the Sheffield Hallam Experience; 12 Creative Writing and Ph.D. Research; 13 A Critique of Postgraduate Workshops and a Case for Low-Residency MFAs; Part V: Reflective Activities; 14 Reflections on Reflection: Supplementary Discourses in Creative Writing Teaching in the UK
15 The Lynchpin in the Workshop: Student Critique and Reflection16 From Wales to Vermont - A Round Trip - a Personal Reflection on Creative Writing in the USA and the UK; Part VI: Critical Theory; 17 Thinking Systematically About What We Do; 18 Re . . . creation, Critique, Catalysis: Critical-creative Rewriting in Theory and Practice; 19 Couplings, Matings, Hybridizations: What Writers Can Gain from Critical Theory; Part VII: Assessment; 20 Assessment of Poetry in Higher Education Courses: What Are the Limits?; 21 Assessment as Empowerment: Grading Entry-Level Creative Writing Students
22 Ranking Student Writing as Bad Pedagogy and a Bogus Pretence of ObjectivityPart VIII: Uses of Information Technology; 23 New Tools for Timeless Work: Technological Advances in Creative Writing Pedagogy; 24 Lancaster University's Creative Writing MA by Distance Learning; Further Reading; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Teaching.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature.
Creative writing.
Art education.
Teaching and Teacher Education.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Literature, general.
Creative Writing.
Creativity and Arts Education.