Title: The author is not dead, merely somewhere else : creative writing reconceived /
Authors: Wandor, Michelene.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2008
Subjects: English language Rhetoric Study and teaching (Higher) Great Britain.; Creative writing (Higher education) Great Britain.; Creative writing (Higher education); Creative writing Study and teaching Great Britain.; Creative writing Study and teaching
Abstract: Wandor has written a history of creative writing in the UK, analysing its complex relationship with English and literary theory.
Contents: First histories: creative writing as cultural and educational intervention -- Autodidacticism and the politics of literacy -- Walking with Swinburne: English at Oxbridge -- Watching the elephants: creative writing in America -- From belles-lettres to literary criticism -- Secular intellectuals after the Second World War -- Textual politics in English studies and after the Second World War -- Creative writing professionalised: summary: the story so far -- Play and pedagogy: creativity and creative writing -- Creative writing: a literature of its own -- The literature: household tips and recipe books -- The workshop and the emperor's clothes -- Comparative approaches in other art forms: art school and conservatoire -- Literary criticism: value judgments and creative writing -- Composition and creative writing: US critiques -- Reconceiving creative writing : the author is not dead, merely in some other text -- From criticism to theory and on -- Reconceiving creative writing : the materiality of imaginative writing -- Literacy, writing and textuality -- From elephants to kangaroos: prose fiction -- Writing drama -- Poetry and form -- The core genres: pedagogy -- Imaginative writing : summary and the future.