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Against Creative Writing (Hardcover)
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Against Creative Writing (Hardcover)
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The rise of Creative Writing has been accompanied from the start by
two questions: can it be taught, and should it be taught? This
scepticism is sometimes shared even by those who teach it, who
often find themselves split between two contradictory identities:
the artistic and the academic. Against Creative Writing explores
the difference between 'writing', which is what writers do, and
Creative Writing, which is the instrumentalisation of what writers
do. Beginning with the question of whether writing can or ought to
be taught, it looks in turn at the justifications for BA, MA, and
PhD courses, and concludes with the divided role of the writer who
teaches. It argues in favour of Creative Writing as a form of
hands-on literary education at undergraduate level and a form of
literary apprenticeship at graduate level, especially in widening
access to new voices. It argues against those forms of Creative
Writing that lose sight of literary values - as seen in the
proliferation of curricular couplings with non-literary subjects,
or the increasing emphasis on developing skills for future
employment. Against Creative Writing, written by a writer, is
addressed to other writers, inside or outside the academy, at
undergraduate or graduate level, whether 'creative' or 'critical'.
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