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Beyond Craft - An Anti-Handbook for Creative Writers (Hardcover)
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Beyond Craft - An Anti-Handbook for Creative Writers (Hardcover)
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Simultaneously a handbook and a critique of one, Beyond Craft
combines an orientation to the field of creative writing with an
insight into current scholarship surrounding creative writing
pedagogy. A much-needed alternative to the traditional craft guide,
this text pairs advice and exercises on composition with an
illuminating commentary on the issues surrounding these very
techniques. Teaching the craft whilst apprising students of the
issues of craft pedagogy, this book allows them to gain an
awareness of how current pedagogy comes at the expense of larger
and increasingly relevant cultural concerns. Westbrook and Ryan
bring emerging writers into the larger conversations that define
the field, inviting them to: - Contextualize their own writing
practices and educational experiences in relation to the history of
creative writing as an academic discipline. - Determine how New
Critical lore and Romantic mythology may affect-even distort-their
understanding of literary production. - Critically examine their
notions of authorship, collaboration, and invention in relation to
contemporary literary and rhetorical theory. - Understand and
evaluate the economic, social, political, and professional
challenges facing creative writers today. - Analyze the
contemporary literary marketplace not only to identify potential
publication contexts but also to understand how issues of diversity
and bias affect writing communities. - Reflect on how increasingly
rapid technological developments may affect their own writing and
the future of literature. Earnestly self-aware throughout, Beyond
Craft both inducts new writers into the field of creative writing
and infuses them with an understanding of the wider dialogue
surrounding their craft.
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