Add to ORKGThis paper will contend that as literary studies elevates creative writing to the highest level, by studying and analysing creative texts; creative writing is similarly enhanced when it is underpinned by theory. This flies in the face of the view that theory has no relevance to the needs of contemporary writers. This paper will examine the way in which theoretical insights and their applications are essential to the creative writing process and propose that without theory, creative writing classes might be at risk of constantly going over the same ground, with no way of being elevated to the next level.Without the study of literary theory in creative writing, writers are in danger of producing imitations of acclaimed literature. Simila...
In the study of creative writing as an academic discipline, much attention has been paid to pedagogy...
When teaching academic writing in English the issue of creativity understood as experimenting, explo...
Using an approach that distinguishes between the epistemologies of critical theory and creative prac...
Creative Writing and theory have long had a problematic relationship, one that is arguably based on ...
Since creative writing is being formalised in coherent programs and assessment methods are under scr...
Literary theory is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the method for analysing ...
Creative writing as an academic discipline has been contested since the very beginning of its existe...
The Anxiety of Confluence is the first truly concerted attempt to theorise some of the major issues ...
Literary theory and critical writing have been traditionally perceived as being in tension, either s...
Theory has been dead for well over a decade. But what was/is theory? And what lessons can we learn f...
The discipline of creative writing is charged as the most untheorized, and in that respect, anachro...
This research tends to inspect the validation of creative writing as an academic discipline in the u...
In its brief history, academic research in creative writing practices has been considered by many as...
This article argues that we need to ‘descend into the crypt’ of creative writing, and use rigorous, ...
The teaching of Creative Writing often includes encouraging students to think about the premise of t...
In the study of creative writing as an academic discipline, much attention has been paid to pedagogy...
When teaching academic writing in English the issue of creativity understood as experimenting, explo...
Using an approach that distinguishes between the epistemologies of critical theory and creative prac...
Creative Writing and theory have long had a problematic relationship, one that is arguably based on ...
Since creative writing is being formalised in coherent programs and assessment methods are under scr...
Literary theory is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the method for analysing ...
Creative writing as an academic discipline has been contested since the very beginning of its existe...
The Anxiety of Confluence is the first truly concerted attempt to theorise some of the major issues ...
Literary theory and critical writing have been traditionally perceived as being in tension, either s...
Theory has been dead for well over a decade. But what was/is theory? And what lessons can we learn f...
The discipline of creative writing is charged as the most untheorized, and in that respect, anachro...
This research tends to inspect the validation of creative writing as an academic discipline in the u...
In its brief history, academic research in creative writing practices has been considered by many as...
This article argues that we need to ‘descend into the crypt’ of creative writing, and use rigorous, ...
The teaching of Creative Writing often includes encouraging students to think about the premise of t...
In the study of creative writing as an academic discipline, much attention has been paid to pedagogy...
When teaching academic writing in English the issue of creativity understood as experimenting, explo...
Using an approach that distinguishes between the epistemologies of critical theory and creative prac...