The Cambridge Companion to Creative WritingDavid Morley, Philip Neilsen Creative writing has become a highly professionalized academic discipline, with popular courses and prestigious degree programs worldwide. This book is a must for all students and teachers of creative writing, indeed for anyone who aspires to be a published writer. It engages with a complex art in an accessible manner, addressing concepts important to the rapidly growing field of creative writing, while maintaining a strong craft emphasis, analyzing exemplary models of writing and providing related writing exercises. Written by professional writers and teachers of writing, the chapters deal with specific genres or forms - ranging from the novel to new media - or with significant topics that explore the cutting edge state of creative writing internationally (including creative writing and science, contemporary publishing and new workshop approaches). |
Contents
1 Introduction | 1 |
Part I Genres and types | 9 |
the three flat tyres and the outer story | 11 |
a new approach to teaching long fiction | 24 |
4 Genre and speculative fiction | 37 |
5 Writing drama | 52 |
6 Poetics and poetry | 67 |
7 Travel writing | 87 |
10 Life writing | 133 |
Part II Topics | 151 |
creative writing and science | 153 |
12 Outside the academy | 171 |
13 Contemporary publishing | 181 |
transglobal and transcultural narratives | 196 |
15 Does that make sense? | 201 |
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