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Literary Rebels - A History of Creative Writers in Anglo-American Universities (Hardcover)
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Literary Rebels - A History of Creative Writers in Anglo-American Universities (Hardcover)
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How many times have you heard that creative writing programmes are
factories that produce the same kind of writers, isolated from real
life? Only by escaping academia can writers be completely free.
Universities are profoundly conservative places, designed to favour
a certain way of writing-preferably informed by literary theory.
Those who reject the creative/ critical discourse of academia are
the true rebels, condemned to live (or survive) in a tough literary
marketplace. Conformity is on the side of academia, the story goes,
and rebellion is on the other side. This book argues against the
notion that creative writing programmes are driven by conformity.
Instead, it shows that these programmes in the United States and
Britain were founded and developed by literary outsiders, who left
an enduring mark on their discipline. To this day, creative writing
occupies a marginal position in Anglo-American universities. The
multiplication of new programmes, accompanied by rising student
enrolments, has done nothing to change that positioning. As a
discipline, creative writing strives on opposition to the
mainstream university, while benefiting from what the university
has to offer. Historically, this opposition to scholars was so
virulent that it often led to the separation of creative writing
and literature departments. The Iowa Writers' Workshop, founded in
the 1930s, separated from the English department three decades
later-and it still occupies a different building on campus, with
little communication between writers and scholars. This model of
institutional division is less common in Britain, where the
discipline formally emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s. But
even when creative writing is located within literature
departments, relationships with scholars remain uneasy. Creative
writers and scholars are not, and have never been, natural
bedfellows.
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