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

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9781350023321: Critical Creative Writing: Essential Readings on the Writer's Craft

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.

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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).

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9781350023338: Critical Creative Writing: Essential Readings on the Writer's Craft

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ISBN 10:  1350023337 ISBN 13:  9781350023338
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018
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