Creative Writing Pedagogies for the Twenty-First Century - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809334038 ISBN 13: 9780809334032

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Pr, 2015

Synopsis

The creative writing workshop: beloved by some, dreaded by others, and ubiqui­tous in writing programs across the na­tion. For decades, the workshop has been entrenched as the primary pedagogy of creative writing. In Creative Writing Pedagogies for the Twenty-First Cen­tury, editors Alexandria Peary and Tom C. Hunley gather together contributing experts from both creative writing and composition studies—a discipline rich with a wide range of established peda­gogies— to offer innovative alternatives to the traditional creative writing work­shop.

Contributors in this volume pres­ent fresh and inventive methods for the teaching of creative writing. Each chapter offers both a theoretical and a historical background for its respective pedagogi­cal ideas, as well as practical applications for use in the classroom. This myriad of methods can be used either to supple­ment the customary workshop model or as stand-alone roadmaps to engage and reinvigorate the creative process for both students and teachers alike.

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Review:

"Creative Writing Pedagogies for the Twenty-First Century is a smart collection that offers new ways of thinking about creative writing pedagogy and the field. Readers will appreciate the wide breadth of subject areas and knowledge presented by these writing teacher-scholars."--Dianne Donnelly, author of Establishing Creative Writing Studies as an Academic Discipline

"The 12 essays survey various approaches to creative writing pedagogy as a means to reconsider and challenge the hegemony of the traditional workshop. Borrowing from established critical approaches--composition studies, rhetoric, critical literacy, writing center theory, basic writing, feminism--the compilation as a whole provides ample resources for creative writing instructors to reconsider the dynamics and aims of the creative writing classroom and its students. Each chapter describes or provides an appendix for specific activities and assignments that can be used as supplements in established courses; in addition, some of the contributors offer glimpses of radically transformed creative-writing learning spaces."--CHOICE magazine

About the Author:

Alexandria Peary is an associate professor and first-year composition coordi­nator in the English Department at Salem State University, USA and the author of three books of poetry, including Lid to the Shadow, which received the 2010 Slope Editions Book Prize, and Control Bird Alt Delete, which received the 2013 Iowa Poetry Prize.

Tom C. Hunley is an associate professor of English at Western Kentucky University, USA. He is the author of Teaching Poetry Writing: A Five-Canon Approach, The Poetry Gymnasium: 94 Proven Exercises to Shape Your Best Verse, and four full-length poetry collections, most recently Plunk.

About this edition

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Pr
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0809334038
• ISBN 13: 9780809334032
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Alexandria Peary, Tom C. Hunley