Overview

Creative Writing: Theory Beyond Practice sets the agenda for creative writing studies in the next ten years. Here writers, teachers and theorists identify theoretical underpinnings for creativity and writing in a broad spectrum of experience - architecture, morality, psychology, ecology, philosophy, physiology, love, sculpture and the body. This new research lays innovative foundations for insight into the nature of writing. A book for practitioners, teachers and students, it prepares a way for understanding the frameworks within which creative writing takes place in the early twenty-first century.

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Table of Contents

• CONTENTS
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors

1. Towards creative writing theory
   Nigel Krauth and Tess Brady

   THE WRITER-READER SPACE

2. Writers, critics, and literary authority
   Paul Dawson
3. Texts and human bodies: An ethical approach to public and professional writing
   Anne Surma
4. How (not) to become a public intellectual
   McKenzie Wark
5. The power of truth: Literary scandals and creative nonfiction
   Donna Lee Brien
6. New media literature
   Thom Swiss and Maria Damon

   THE WRITER-TEACHER SPACE

7. Postcolonial creativity and creative writing
   Marcelle Freiman
8. Freshening the mind: An account of teaching a three-week creative writing course in Chennai, India
   Inez Baranay
9. Disinterested passion: Creative writing and the arts of love and teaching
   Brian Dibble
10. Writing, textual culture and the humanities
    Claire Woods

    THE INTIMATE SPACE

11. 'Peculiarities and monstrosities': Consciousness, neuro-science and poetry
    Kevin Brophy
12. Writing and danger: The intercorporeality of affect
    Anna Gibbs
13. The posthuman and the writing process: Emergence, algorithm, affect and multimodality
    Hazel Smith

    THE WRITING SPACE

14. The domains of the writing process
    Nigel Krauth
15. Redrafting the self: The author as work in progress
    Jeri Kroll
16. Something to live within: Writing as an architectural act
    Jen Webb

    THE IMAGINED SPACE

17. Writing / Theory: A personal view
    Andrew Taylor
18. Writing a place
    Martin Harrison
19. Against accessibility: Renewing the difficult imagination
    Lance Olsen
20. A field so vast, the other is lost in the details
    Alan Sondheim