256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction
1. Can it be Taught? Should it be Taught?
2. What is the Point of Undergraduate Creative Writing?
3. Does the Graduate Workshop Work?
4. Must a Writer be a Doctor?
5. Is Creative Writing Research Writing?
Conclusion
Biography
Andrew Cowan is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. His novels include Pig, the winner of numerous literary awards, and most recently Your Fault. He is also the author of the guidebook The Art of Writing Fiction.
