Critical Creative Writing: Essential Readings on the Writer's Craft - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1350023329 ISBN 13: 9781350023321

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

Synopsis

Bringing together 25 essential works of creative writing criticism in a single volume, this is a comprehensive introduction to the key debates in creative writing today, from the ethics of appropriation to the politics of literary evaluation. Critical Creative Writing covers such topics as:

· Craft & Politics
· Language & Community
· Identity & Authorship
· Representation & Counternarrative
· Appropriation & Intertextuality
· Evaluation & Genre

The book anthologizes critical essays written by international literary writers. Each essay is contextualized with an introduction as well as sample questions, writing prompts and suggested readings. The book also has a companion website (www.criticalcreativewriting.org) offering supplemental materials such as lesson plans and course materials.

Includes writings by: Ayana Mathis, Leslie Marmon Silko, Craig Santos Perez, Natasha Sajé, Porochista Khakpour, Taiye Selasi, Michael Nardone, Conchitina Cruz, Benjamin Paloff, Dorothy Wang, and many more.

About this title

About the Author

Janelle Adsit is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, USA She is editor of Critical Creative Writing: Essential Readings on the Writer's Craft (2018) and author of the book Toward an Inclusive Creative Writing: Threshold Concepts to Guide the Literary Writing Curriculum (2017).

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350023329
• ISBN 13: 9781350023321
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Adsit Janelle