M. Wandor, The Author is not Dead, Merely Somewhere Else. Creative Writing after Theory

Michelene WANDOR, The Author is not Dead, Merely Somewhere Else. Creative Writing after Theory

New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, 192 p.
ISBN 1-4039-3420-7


RÉSUMÉ

This timely book takes a radical and innovative look at Creative Writing, the academy's newest success story

Michelene Wandor has written the first history of Creative Writing, analysing its relationship with English, literary studies and cultural theory, and theorising its pedagogy. Erudite and provocative, the book presents a searching critique of Creative Writing's aims, its position in higher education, and the methodology of the workshop format in which it is conventionally taught.

Written with wit, intelligence and authority, The Author is not Dead, Merely Somewhere Else argues for a radical reconception of the subject, suggesting inspiring strategies for change.


TABLE DES MATIÈRES

Introduction and Overview: Creative Writing and English Literature * Origins of Creative Writing in the Academy * Origins of English in the Academy * Comparative Histories: The United Kingdom, America and Australia * Critical and Cultural Theory and Creative Writing: Backdrops and Contradictions * 'The Author is not Dead, Merely Somewhere Else': The Student in the Classroom, the Workshop and Materialist Approaches to the Foundations of the Core Fictional Genres * Conclusion * Annotated Further Reading * Bibliography * Index


BIOGRAPHIE

Michelene Wandor is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at London Metropolitan University, UK, and is a well-known playwright, poet, broadcaster and public intellectual. Her critical publications include Postwar British Drama (Routledge) and she has recently contributed to the English Subject Centre's Creative Writing Good Practice Guidelines.