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Beyond Craft: An Anti-Handbook for Creative Writers

Beyond Craft: An Anti-Handbook for Creative Writers

Westbrook, Steve
Ryan, James

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ISBN10: 1350152021
ISBN13: 9781350152021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Aug 20 2020
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Simultaneously a handbook and a critique of one, Beyond Craft combines an orientation to the field of creative writing with an insight into current scholarship surrounding creative writing pedagogy. A much-needed alternative to the traditional craft guide, this text pairs advice and exercises on composition with an illuminating commentary on the issues surrounding these very techniques. Teaching the craft whilst apprising students of the issues of craft pedagogy, this book allows them to gain an awareness of how current pedagogy comes at the expense of larger and increasingly relevant cultural concerns. Westbrook and Ryan bring emerging writers into the larger conversations that define the field, inviting them to:

- Contextualize their own writing practices and educational experiences in relation to the history of creative writing as an academic discipline.

- Determine how New Critical lore and Romantic mythology may affect-even distort-their understanding of literary

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