Against Creative Writing

by Andrew Cowan

Book Overview

The rise of Creative Writing has been accompanied from the start by two questions: can it be taught, and should it be taught? This scepticism is sometimes shared even by those who teach it, who often find themselves split between two contradictory identities: the artistic and the academic. Against Creative Writing explores the difference between 'writing', which is what writers do, and Creative Writing, which is the instrumentalisation of what...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138593575
• ISBN13: 9781138593572
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"