00000nam a22000008i 4500 UP-8027390931311284700 Buklod 20241117074102.0 m |o d | ta 241117s2023 enk b 001 0 eng 9781138593572 (paperback) 22459949 CAL-14060 Fastbooks Php4,590.00 DLC DCAL rda eng PN 181 C69 2023 Cowan, Andrew author. Against creative writing Andrew Cowan. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon Routledge 2023. 248 pages text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. The rise of Creative Writing has been accompanied from the start by two questions: can it be taught, and should it be taught? This scepticism is sometimes shared even by those who teach it, who often find themselves split between two contradictory identities: the artistic and the academic. Against Creative Writing explores the difference between 'writing', which is what writers do, and Creative Writing, which is the instrumentalisation of what writers do. Beginning with the question of whether writing can or ought to be taught, it looks in turn at the justifications for BA, MA and PhD courses, and concludes with the divided role of the writer who teaches. It argues in favour of Creative Writing as a form of hands-on literary education at undergraduate level and a form of literary apprenticeship at graduate level, especially in widening access to new voices. It argues against those forms of Creative Writing that lose sight of literary values - as seen in the proliferation of curricular couplings with non-literary subjects, or the increasing emphasis on developing skills for future employment. Against Creative Writing, written by a writer, is addressed to other writers, inside or outside the academy, at undergraduate or graduate level, whether 'creative' or 'critical'"--Provided by publisher. Creative writing (Graduate education). Creative writing (Higher education). Authorship Study and teaching (Higher). FO UPD DCAL PN 181 C69 2023 Book