The Writer in the Academy: Creative Interfrictions

Tiffany Atkinson

ISBN 10: 1843842785 / ISBN 13: 9781843842781

Published by Boydell and Brewer Ltd, GB, 2011

About this Item

From a range of perspectives, the essays in this volume tackle some of the most urgent issues facing the creative writer in today's academic institutions.For many years now the professional "creative writer" within universities and other institutions has encompassed a range of roles, embracing a plurality of scholarly and creative identities. The often complex relation between those identities forms the broad focus of this book, which also examines various, and variously fraught, dialogues between creative writers, "hybrid" writers and academic colleagues from other subjects within single institutions, and with the public and the media. At the heart of the book is the principle of "creative writing" as a fully-fledged discipline, an important subject for debate at a time when the future of the humanities is in crisis; the contributors, all writers and teachers themselves, provide first-hand views on crucial questions: What are the most fruitful intersections between creative writing and scholarship? What methodological overlaps exist between creative writing and literary studies, and what can each side of the "divide" learn from its counterpart? Equally, from a pedagogical perspective, what kind of writing should be taught to students to ensure that the discipline remains relevant? And is the writing workshop still the best way of teaching creative writing? The essays here tackle these points from a range of perspectives, including close readings, historical contextualisation and theoretical exploration. Professor Richard Marggraf Turley teaches in the Department of English and Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University.C.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Writer in the Academy: Creative Interfrictions
• Publisher: Boydell and Brewer Ltd, GB
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1843842785
• ISBN 13: 9781843842781
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 482 grams

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Synopsis

From a range of perspectives, the essays in this volume tackle some of the most urgent issues facing the creative writer in today's academic institutions.

About the Author

Professor Richard Marggraf Turley teaches in the Department of English and Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University.