On the Teaching of Creative Writing
Subtitle: Responses to a Series of Questions
Contributors: Edward Connery Lathem (Editor)
Publisher: Montgomery Endowment, Dartmouth
Published: January 1, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9780874514865
Subjects: Writing & editing guides; Stegner, Wallace - Prose & Criticism; Creative Writing; Reference; Language; Authorship; General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Composition & Creative Writing
First sentence: What, Mr. Stegner, is your reply to the question of whether creative writing can, in point of fact, be "taught"? 
Description: This volume evolved from a series of discussions with Wallace Stegner during his two-month residency at Dartmouth College in the summer of 1980. Stegner was among the first students in the U.S. to receive a master's degree in creative writing; he also founded and directed for 25 years Stanford University's creative writing program. Here he criticizes instructors who use their classrooms to create a coterie of copiers, as well as those indulgent professors who rhapsodize about their students' work without warrant.