The Writer in the Academy: Creative Interfrictions

The Writer in the Academy: Creative Interfrictions
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
20 October 2011
Pages
246
ISBN
9781843842781

The Writer in the Academy: Creative Interfrictions

For many years now the professional creative writer within universities and other institutions has encompassed a range of roles, embracing a plurality of scholarly and creative identities. The often complex relation between those identities forms the broad focus of this book, which also examines various, and variously fraught, dialogues between creative writers, hybrid writers and academic colleagues from other subjects within single institutions, andwith the public and the media.

At the heart of the book is the principle of creative writing as a fully-fledged discipline, an important subject for debate at a time when the future of the humanities is in crisis; the contributors, all writers and teachers themselves, provide first-hand views on crucial questions:
What are the most fruitful intersections between creative writing and scholarship? What methodological overlaps exist between creative writing and literary studies, and what can each side of the divide learn from its counterpart? Equally, from a pedagogical perspective, what kind of writing should be taught to students to ensure that the discipline remainsrelevant? And is the writing workshop still the best way of teaching creative writing? The essays here tackle these points from a range of perspectives, including close readings, historical contextualisation and theoretical exploration.

Professor Richard Marggraf Turley teaches in the Department of English and Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University.

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