Research Methods in Creative Writing

A guide to the modes and methods of Creative Writing research, designed to be invaluable to university staff and students in formulating research ideas, and in selecting appropriate strategies. Creative writing researchers from around the globe offer a selection of models that readers can explore and on which they can build.>

List of contents

Introduction
Poetics and Creative Writing Research; K.Lasky
Non-fiction Writing Research; D.L.Brien
Modelling the Creative Writing Process; M.MacRobert
New Modes of Creative Writing Research; K.Spencer
The Creative Writing Laboratory and its Pedagogy; J.Kroll
The Generations of Creative Writing Research; G.Harper
Forward, Wayward: The Writer in the World's Text, at Large; K.Coles
Creative Writing and Theory /Theory without Credentials; D.Hecq
Transcultural Writing and Research; G.Mort
Conclusion
Selected Further Reading.

About the author

JERI KROLL is Professor in the Department of English, Creative Writing and Australian Studies at Flinders University, Australia. She was formerly president of the Australian Association of Writing Programs and is on the boards of New Writing, TEXT and Write4Children. She is the co-editor (with Graeme Harper) of Creative Writing Studies: Practice, Research and Pedagogy.

GRAEME HARPER is Director of The Honors College and Professor of English at Oakland University, Michigan, USA. He was Chair of Higher Education at the National Association of Writers in Education and is Editor of New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing. He is also series editor of Palgrave Macmillan's Approaches to Writing series and has edited Teaching Creative Writing and Creative Writing Studies. He holds doctorates in Creative Writing from the University of Technology, Sydney and from the University of East Anglia, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Graeme Harper, Jeri Kroll, Jeri Harper Kroll
• Assisted by: D. Forrest (Editor), Graeme Harper (Editor), Kroll (Editor), Jeri Kroll (Editor), Kroll Jeri (Editor)
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.12.2012
• EAN: 9780230242678
• ISBN: 978-0-230-24267-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Literature: general, reference works; B, Creative Writing, REFERENCE / Research, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Creative writing and creative writing guides, Research methods / methodology