Graeme Harper

A Companion to Creative Writing

Herausgeber: Harper, Graeme

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Produktbeschreibung

A Companion to Creative Writing comprehensively considers key aspects of the practice, profession and culture of creative writing in the contemporary world.

The most comprehensive collection specifically relating to the practices and cultural and professional place of creative writing
Covers not only the "how" of creative writing, but many more topics in and around the profession and cultural practices surrounding creative writing
Features contributions from international writers, editors, publishers, critics, translators, specialists in public art and more
Covers the writing of poetry, fiction, new media, plays, films, radio works, and other literary genres and forms
Explores creative writing's engagement with culture, language, spirituality, politics, education, and heritage

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 180mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 862g
• ISBN-13: 9780470656938
• ISBN-10: 047065693X
• Artikelnr.: 37705222

Autorenporträt

The Editor Graeme Harper is a Professor of Creative Writing and Dean of The Honors College at Oakland University, Michigan. He has also been a Professor and Honorary Professor of Creative Writing in the UK and in Australia. His recent publications include Inside Creative Writing: Interviews with Contemporary Writers (2012) and On Creative Writing (2010). Writing as Brooke Biaz, his works include The Invention of Dying (2013) and Small Maps of the World (2006). Harper is also Editor of New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors ix Foreword by Sir Andrew Motion xiii Introduction 1
Graeme Harper Part I Creative Writing 7 1 The Architecture of Story 9
Lorraine M. López 2 Writing Creative Nonfiction 24 Bronwyn T. Williams 3
Writing Poetry 40 Nigel McLoughlin 4 Writing for Children and Young Adults
56 Kathleen Ahrens 5 Write on! Practical Strategies for Developing
Playwriting 71 Peter Billingham 6 Writing for Sound/Radio 86 Steve May 7
Writing the Screenplay 98 Craig Batty 8 New Media Writing 115 Carolyn
Handler Miller 9 How to Make a Pocket Watch: The British Ph.D. in Creative
Writing 129 Simon Holloway 10 Creative Writing and the Other Arts 144
Harriet Edwards and Julia Lockheart Part II The Creative Writer's
Profession 161 11 Agents, Publishers, and Booksellers: A Historical
Perspective 163 John Feather 12 The Changing Role of the Editor: Editors
Past, Present, and Future 179 Frania Hall 13 Translation as Creative
Writing 195 Manuela Perteghella 14 Creative Writing and "the lash of
criticism" 213 Steven Earnshaw 15 But What's Really at Stake for the
Barbarian Warrior? Developing a Pedagogy for Paraliterature 229 Jeffrey S.
Chapman 16 Creative Writing and Education 245 Jeri Kroll 17 The Rise and
Rise of Writers' Festivals 263 Cori Stewart 18 Creative Writing Research
278 Graeme Harper 19 Literary Prizes and Awards 291 Claire Squires Part III
Creative Writing in the World 305 20 D.H. Lawrence, Forever on the Move:
Creative Writers and Place 307 Louise DeSalvo 21 The Psychology of Creative
Writing 320 Marie J.C. Forgeard, Scott Barry Kaufman, and James C. Kaufman
22 Creative Writing around the World 334 Matthew McCool 23 Creative
Hauntings: Creative Writing and Literary Heritage at the British Library
348 Jamie Andrews 24 Politics 357 Jon Cook 25 Creative Writing and the Cold
War University 377 Eric Bennett 26 "To the imagination, the sacred is
self-evident": Thoughts on Spirituality and the Vocation of Creative
Writing 393 J. Matthew Boyleston 27 The Writer-Teacher in the United
States: The Place of Teachers in the Community of Writers 405 Patrick
Bizzaro 28 Creative Writing to the Future 421 Graeme Harper Index 433