Literary Rebels: A History of Creative Writers in Anglo-American Universities

by Lise Jaillant

How many times have you heard that creative writing programmes are factories that produce the same kind of writers, isolated from real life? Only by escaping academia can writers be completely free. Universities are profoundly conservative places, designed to favour a certain way of writing-preferably informed by literary theory. Those who reject the creative/ critical discourse of academia are the true rebels, condemned to live (or survive) in a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192855301
• ISBN13: 9780192855305
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"