Steve Westbrook, James Ryan

Beyond Craft (eBook, ePUB)

An Anti-Handbook for Creative Writers

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350119475
• Artikelnr.: 59633895

Autorenporträt

Steve Westbrook is an associate professor of English at California State University Fullerton, where he teaches courses in creative writing, composition-rhetoric, and cultural studies. His edited collection, Composition & Copyright, is available from SUNY-Press, and his poetry chapbook, Vox Americana, is available from Orange Monkey

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments An Introduction: By Way of Boxes and Paradoxes (and Too
Many Lines About Felines) Section 1: Where Creative Writing Comes From
Chapter 1: Art for Art's Sake & Craft for Craft's Sake: Our Love-Hate
Relationship with the Academic History of Creative Writing Chapter 2:
Smoked Dispersed in the Ether: Authors' Creation Myths and the Problem with
Genius Chapter 3: Repurposing Spontaneity: From Inspiration to Invention
Section 2: Who Creative Writers Are (in Relation to Others) Chapter 4:
Beyond A Room of One's Own: Toward Collaborative Understandings of
Authorship Chapter 5: Making Collaboration Explicit: Co-Creating With
Actual Others Section 3: Where Writers Find Their Audiences, or How
Publishing Works Chapter 6: What Your Creative Writing Teacher May Not Have
Told You: On The Problem of "Greatness" in the Literary Marketplace Chapter
7: Commercial Publishing: Cumulative Advantage and Marketing Magic Chapter
8: Small Literary Publishing: Understanding the Pitfalls of Prestige at
Independent and University Presses 193 Chapter 9: Self-Publishing in the
Internet Age, or the eBook that (Nearly) Ate the World Section 4: What the
Future of Creative Writing Might Look Like Chapter 10: Misbehaving On and
Off of the Page: Toward the Literature of Tomorrow Works Cited