Beyond craft : an anti-handbook for creative writers /: an anti-handbook for creative writers. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Steve Westbrook and James Ryan.
• Authors: Westbrook, Steve, 1973-; Ryan, James (James William)
• Contents: Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- AN INTRODUCTION By Way of Boxes and Paradoxes (and Too Many Lines About Felines) -- Discussion Questions -- Your Turn: Questions, Concerns & Creative-Critical Comments -- Writing Experiment -- Deep Reading -- SECTION ONE Where Creative Writing Comes From -- 1 From Art for Art's Sake to Craftfor Craft's Sake: Our Love-Hate Relationship with the Academic History of Creative Writing -- A Beautiful Impossibility: On Creative Writing's Formative Infl uences. Let's Make this Personal, or at Least More Personal Than a Proselytizing Machine -- Beyond Aesthetic Ascetics & Their Pyramid Schemes -- Toward Programatic Change -- Discussion Questions -- Your Turn: Questions, Concerns & Creative-Critical Comments -- Writing Experiments -- Deep Reading -- 2 Smoke Dispersed in the Ether: Authors' Creation Myths and the Problem with Genius -- Who Cares about Genius? A Necessary Disclaimer -- Drug-Addled Daydreams and Literary Marketing Schemes -- Benes and Magic Scrolls: the Romantic Creation Myth meets the Beats. Coleridge's Wake- up Call and Kerouac's Long, Slow Road -- I Wrote Your Autobiography and It's Genius: Gertrude Stein Revises the Myth -- Romanticism Reversed: A Gratifying Loss of Inspiration -- If We Hath Not Music in Our Souls Are We Incapable of Learning? -- Discussion Questions -- Your Turn: Questions, Concerns & Creative-Critical Comments -- Writing Experiments -- Deep Reading -- 3 Repurposing Spontaneity: From Inspiration to Invention -- New Critical Craft Criticism -- Expressivism -- Social-Epistemic Rhetoric -- Process Paradigms. How the Beat Goes On: Repurposed Spontaneity and the Implications of Process Theory -- Discussion Questions -- Your Turn: Questions, Concerns & Creative-Critical Comments -- Writing Experiments -- Deep Reading -- SECTION TWO Who Creative Writers Are (In Relation to Others) -- 4 Beyond A Room of One's Own: Toward Collaborative Understandings of Authorship -- Visualizing The Image of Authors -- Implicit Collaboration Part I: Invoking Others -- Implicit Collaboration Part II: Writers, Readers, and Role-Play -- Discussion Questions -- Your Turn: Questions, Concerns & Creative-Critical Comments. Writing Experiments -- Deep Reading -- 5 Making Collaboration Explicit: Co-Creating With Actual Others -- Case Study I: Eliot and His Other -- Case Study II: Carver's Signature Style -- Revisualizing The Image of Authors -- Strategic Collaboration: On Human Rights and the Future of Space Exploration -- Post Script: Play Nice, Say "Please" and "Thank You"? -- Discussion Questions -- Your Turn: Questions, Concerns & Creative-Critical Comments -- Writing Experiments -- Deep Reading -- SECTION THREE How Creative Writers Find Their Audiences, or How Publishing Works.
• Publisher Details: London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 808.02; Creative writing & creative writing guides; Creative writing; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350119482; 1350119482; 9781350119475; 1350119474
• Related ISBNs: 9781350119468; 1350119474; 9781350152021; 1350119466; 9781350119451
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed
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