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Strategies of Silence: Reflections on the Practice and Pedagogy of Creative Writing book cover

1st Edition

Strategies of Silence Reflections on the Practice and Pedagogy of Creative Writing

Edited By Moy McCrory, Simon Heywood Copyright 2021
206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge
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This unique book takes silence as its central concept and questions the range of meanings and values which inform the idea as it impinges on the creative process and its content and contexts. The thematic core of silence allows a consideration of silencing and silence as opposite ends of a spectrum: one shutting down, the other enabling and opening up. As a multidisciplinary collection of... Read more

Introduction: On Silence in Language and Writing
Moy McCrory and Simon Heywood

PART 1: Silence, Solitude, and Imagination

  1. Daydreams and Solitude: Working the silent space
    Luke M. Thompson

    2.

    PART 2: History and Traditions

  2. Restored to his Kingdom: Reading the silences of medieval narrative
    Simon Heywood

    3.

  3. Silver Threads of Fear: Restoring the agency of female protagonists in Jewish women's storytelling traditions
    Simon Heywood

    4.

  4. The Roaring Ghosts: Depictions of female silence and its oppositions
    Moy McCrory

    5.

  5. Re-Witching Writing: Emerging out of silence
    Maude Casey

    6.

    PART 3: The Poetry of Silence

  6. Strange Affiliation
    Matthew Clegg

    7.

  7. A Poor Poetry: Silence and stillness in Thomas A. Clark's Moschatel poems
    Aled Ganobscik-Williams

    8.

  8. Making Worlds out of Silence: A text-world analysis of the unspoken in Not an Ending by Andrew Waterhouse
    Nigel McLoughlin

    9.

  9. Firstly, into Silence: Openings into Poetry
    Adrian Buckner

    10.

    PART 4: Silence as Structure: Prose, Script, and the Unsaid

  10. Silence and the Short Story Form
    Moy McCrory

    11.

  11. Graphic Novels as Works of Translation: working as an illustrator

    12. Bob Moulder

  12. Silence and Filmic Prose
    Gregory Heath

    13.

  13. Q.A.Q.

    14. Matthew Cheeseman

    PART 5: The Waiting Game

  14. The Silence of Peer Review
    Ailsa Cox

Appendix 1: Text World Architecture of ‘Not an Ending’

Biography

Moy McCrory is Senior Lecturer in Creative and Professional Writing at the University of Derby, UK.

Simon Heywood is Senior Lecturer in Creative and Professional Writing at the University of Derby, UK.

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