The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing
The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing
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Creative writing has become a highly professionalized academic discipline, with popular courses and prestigious degree programs worldwide. This book is a must for all students and teachers of creative writing, indeed for anyone who aspires to be a published writer. It engages with a complex art in an accessible manner, addressing concepts important to the rapidly growing field of creative writing, while maintaining a strong craft emphasis, analyzing exemplary models of writing and providing related writing exercises. Written by professional writers and teachers of writing, the chapters deal with specific genres or forms – ranging from the novel to new media – or with significant topics that explore the cutting edge state of creative writing internationally (including creative writing and science, contemporary publishing and new workshop approaches).
- Provides a cutting-edge view of creative writing for the twenty-first century - as a discipline in its own right and one that is practice-led
- Thought-provoking chapters on the discipline's strengths, challenges and future
- Includes a huge number of original, playful and entertaining writing games, field-tested internationally in schools and colleges
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"Many creative writing teachers will find that this companion helps them refresh their teaching strategies."
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Product details
March 2012Hardback
9780521768498
246 pages
229 × 152 × 16 mm
0.5kg
4 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Foreword: on criticism and creativity Jonathan Bate
- 1. Introduction David Morley and Philip Neilsen
- Part I. Genres and Types:
- 2. A writing lesson: the Three Flat Tires and the outer story Ron Carlson
- 3. In conversation: a new approach to teaching long fiction Maureen Freely
- 4. Genre and speculative fiction Kim Wilkins
- 5. Writing drama Michelene Wandor
- 6. Poetics and poetry Bronwyn Lea
- 7. Travel writing Kári Gislason
- 8. Creative writing and new media Hazel Smith
- 9. Creative translation Fiona Sampson
- 10. Life writing Philip Neilsen
- Part II. Topics:
- 11. Serious play: creative writing and science David Morley
- 12. Outside the academy Richard Beard
- 13. Contemporary publishing Christopher Hamilton-Emery
- 14. Imaginative crossings: transglobal and transcultural narratives Jewell Parker Rhodes
- 15. Does that make sense? Approaches to the creative writing workshop A. L. Kennedy
- Further reading
- Index.
