The Author Is Not Dead, Merely Somewhere Else: Creative Writing after Theory

Wandor has written the first history of creative writing in the UK, analyzing its complex relationship with English and literary theory. Erudite and provocative, the book presents a searching critique of creative writing pedagogy, arguing for new approaches. Indispensable for teachers, students and everyone concerned with the future of literature.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Creative Writing: A success story First Histories: Creative writing as cultural and educational intervention Autodidacticism and the Politics of Literacy Walking with Swinburne: English at Oxbridge Watching the Elephants; Creative writing in America From Belle-lettres to Literary Criticism Secular Intellectuals after World War II Textual Politics in English Studies after World War II Creative Writing Professionalised: Summary the Story so Far Play and Pegagogy: Creativity and Creative Writing Creative Writing: A Literature of its Own Household Tips and Recipe Books The Workshop and the Emperor's Clothes Comparative Approaches: Art School and Conservatoire Literary Criticism: Value-Judgements and Creative Writing Composition and Creative Writing: US Critiques Reconceiving Creative Writing: the Author is Not Dead, Merely in Some Other Text From Criticism to Theory and On Reconceiving Creative Writing: The Materiality of Imaginative Writing Literacy, Writing and Textuality From Elephants to Kangaroos: Prose Fiction Writing Drama Poetry and Form The Core Genres: Pedagogy Imaginative Writing: Summary and the Future Epilogue.

About the Author :
MICHELENE WANDOR is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at London Metropolitan University, UK, and is a well-known playwright, poet, broadcaster and public intellectual. Her critical publications include Postwar British Drama (Routledge) and she has recently contributed to the English Subject Centre's Creative Writing Good Practice Guidelines. MICHELENE WANDOR is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at London Metropolitan University, UK, and is a well-known playwright, poet, broadcaster and public intellectual. Her critical publications include Postwar British Drama (Routledge) and she has recently contributed to the English Subject Centre's Creative Writing Good Practice Guidelines.

Review :
'Pursues a much-needed argument about Creative Writing, the nature of the discipline, its relationship to Literary Studies and the workshop format in which it is conventionally taught. On all these subjects Wandor has important (and controversial) things to say.' - Professor Ben Knights, Director, English Subject Centre 'The book will be the definitive text about the history of Creative Writing teaching and its development in the UK for some time to come.' English Subject Centre Newsletter. 'A thorough and detailed history of the multiple ways in which creative writing developed as a university discipline.' College English