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Against Creative Writing

Object category:
Elektronische Ressource
Person/Institution:
Cowan, Andrew
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis Group
Place of publication:
Milton
Date:
2022
Extent, illustration, format:
1 online resource (257 pages)
Language:
Englisch
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. 'research-intensive': the disciplining of Creative Writing -- 2. 'the logic of the academy': the purpose of the PhD -- 3. 'a context of reinforcement and support': writing vs Creative Writing -- 4. a 'profusion - or confusion - of roles': my divided self -- 1. Can it be taught? should it be taught? -- 1. 'A flourishing discipline': some numbers -- 2. 'Learning by doing': the American invention of Creative Writing -- 3. 'A cultural intervention': UEA's adoption of Creative Writing -- 4. 'committees and monitorial personages': the internal resistance to Creative Writing -- 5. 'It gets learned': Creative Writing's disciplinary self-doubt -- 6. 'Diligently finessed but slightly anodyne': the institutionalisation of writing -- 7. 'cultural capital': institutionality and social mobility -- 8. 'cultural matching': some more numbers -- 9. 'You'd call it a creative-writing class, now, I suppose': noninstitutional institutionality -- 2. What is the point of undergraduate creative writing? -- 1. 'an extreme end of the spectrum': the vital link with literature -- 2. 'passion and lostness and wonderment': what is literature? -- 3. 'the palpability of signs': foregrounding, automatisation, and defamiliarisation -- 4. 'a sociological poetics': Paul Dawson's critique of Creative Writing -- 5. 'naively uncritical and untheorized': lore versus learning outcomes -- 6. 'a significant advantage': employability and the neoliberal academy -- 7. 'the private and the public': the expressive self meets identity politics -- 8. 'Who takes up space?': Janelle Adsit's critique of Creative Writing -- 9. 'a knowledge we don't yet possess': writing, the self, and writing the self -- 3. Does the graduate workshop work?.
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Created:
2023-04-12
Last changed:
2022-07-29
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2023-04-12