Keywords in Creative Writing - Softcover

Bishop, Wendy; Starkey, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 087421629X ISBN 13: 9780874216295

Publisher: Utah State University Press, 2006

Synopsis

Wendy Bishop and David Starkey have created a remarkable resource volume for creative writing students and other writers just getting started. In two- to ten-page discussions, these authors introduce forty-one central concepts in the fields of creative writing and writing instruction, with discussions that are accessible yet grounded in scholarship and years of experience."

Keywords in Creative Writing" provides a brief but comprehensive introduction to the field of creative writing through its landmark terms, exploring concerns as abstract as postmodernism and identity politics alongside very practical interests of beginning writers, like contests, agents, and royalties. This approach makes the book ideal for the college classroom as well as the writer s bookshelf, and unique in the field, combining the pragmatic accessibility of popular writer s handbooks, with a wider, more scholarly vision of theory and research."

About this title

About the Author:

Wendy Bishop, former Kellogg Hunt Professor of English at Florida State University, is the author or editor of a number of books, essays, and articles on composition and creative writing pedagogy and writing research, including Acts of Revision; The Subject Is Writing, Third Edition; The Subject Is Story; The Subject Is Research; and The Subject Is Reading, as well as Ethnographic Writing Research, Elements of Alternate Style, and In Praise of Pedagogy, all published by Boynton/Cook.

David Starkey is Honorary Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and the author of many books including Elizabeth; Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII and Monarchy: England and Her Rulers from the Tudors to the Windsors . He is a winner of the WH Smith Prize and the Norton Medlicott Medal for Services to History presented by Britain s Historical Association. He is a well-known TV and radio personality. He was made a CBE in 2007. He lives in London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Utah State University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 087421629X
• ISBN 13: 9780874216295
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 235