Can creative writing really be taught? : resisting lore in creative writing pedagogy / edited by Stephanie Vanderslice and Rebecca Manery.

"New chapters on identity and activism Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught? is supported by a companion website at www.bloomsbury.com, including extensive links to online resources, teaching case studies and lesson plans."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Machine generated contents note: Section One Can it Really be Taught? Influential Essays Revisited by Their Authors -- 1. (Re)Figuring the Future: Lore, Creative Writing Studies, and Institutional Histories / Tim Mayers -- 2. Against Reading, 2: Or, Writing Starts Here Reconsidered / Katharine Haake -- 3. Revisiting Charming Tyrants and Faceless Facilitators: The Lore of Teaching Identities in Creative Writing / Mary Ann Cain -- 4. "It's such a good feeling": Self-Esteem, the Growth Mindset, and Creative Writing / Anna Leahy -- 5. Finding Truth in the Gaps: A Hybrid Text / Patrick Bizzaro -- 6. Box Office Poison: The Influence of Writers in Films on Writers (in Graduate Programs) / Stephen B. Armstrong -- Section Two Future of Creative Writing Lore: New Voices, New Challenges -- 7. Traces of Certain Collisions: Contemporary Writing and Old Tropes / Jen Webb -- 8. Lore 2.0: Creative Writing as History / Phil Sandick -- 9. "We don't need no creative writing": Black Cultural Capital, Social (In)Justice, and the Devaluing of Creativity in Higher Education / Tonya C. Hegemin -- 10. Genre Fiction, and Games, and Fanfiction! Oh My!: Competing Realities in Creative Writing Classrooms / Trent Hergenrader -- 11. Disability Culture and Creative Writing Pedagogies: When having Fun Together is Radical Practice / Petra Kuppers -- 12. Polemics Against Polemics: Reconsidering Didacticism in Creative Writing / Janelle Adsit -- 13. "It's my story and I'll revise if I want to": Rethinking Authorship Through Collaborative Workshop Practices / Joseph Rein -- 14. Toward a Digital Historiography of Creative Writing Programs in Our Millennium / Ben Ristow -- 15. Investigating Creative Writing: Challenging Obstacles to Empirical Research / Greg Light -- 16. Creative Writing with Godzilla: Welcoming the Monster to your Creative Writing Classroom / Graeme Harper -- 17. Myths, Mirrors, and Metaphors: The Education of the Creative Writing Teacher / Rebecca Manery.

Revised and updated throughout, this 10th-anniversary edition of Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught? is a significantly expanded guide to key issues and practices in creative writing today.--over.

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