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Providing a historical, literary and theoretical resource for creative writing students and their teachers, this title offers grounding for critical commentaries and provides material for workshop use and clarification of the critical process itself.
List of contents
Contents arranged historically; Contents arranged thematically; Introduction; How to use this book; Why Critical-Creative?; Critical Terminology in the Workshop; The critical commentary; Part I: Themes; Aesthetics; Mimesis, realism and naturalism; Authorship, ownership, intertextuality, style and voice; Sociocultural theories of literature/social theories of literature; language, rhetoric, semiology, modernism, illusionsim, referentiality; Imagination; Part II: Genres; Prose fiction; Narrative; character; point of view/focalisation; description; structure; plot/story; polemic; referentiality; Poetry; Metaphor; figurative language; rhyme; metre; referentiality; Drama; Dialogue; epic/comic/tragic; character/action; plot/story; definition of dramatic text; Bibliography; Index.
About the author
Michelene Wandor is a playwright, poet, fiction writer and musician. She is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow and has taught creative writing in a wide range of institutions at different levels. She currently teaches on the Lancaster University, UK, MA in Creative Writing. Her most recent books include The Author is Not Dead, Merely Somewhere Else: Creative Writing After Theory (Palgrave, 2007) and The Art of Writing Drama (Methuen, 2008).
Summary
Providing a historical, literary and theoretical resource for creative writing students and their teachers, this title offers grounding for critical commentaries and provides material for workshop use and clarification of the critical process itself.
