The Cambridge introduction to creative writing
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| Intersect, New York Teachers and Writers Collaborative, 1983. Sheeler, Jessie, Little Sparta The Garden of Ian Hamilton Finlay, London Frances Lincoln, 2003. Showalter, Elaine, Teaching Literature, Oxford Blackwell, 2003. Illustrative bibliography 263 Sinclair, John D. (trans, The Divine Comedy, 3 vols, New York Oxford University Press, Smith, Frank, Writing and the Writer, London Heinemann, 1982. Spiegelman, Art, MAUS: A Survivor’s Tale, New York Random House, 1986. Steegmuller, Francis, Cocteau: A Biography, Boston Atlantic/Little Brown, Steele, Timothy, All the Fun’s in How You Say a Thing An Explanation of Meter and Versification, Athens Ohio University Press, Stein, Sol, Stein on Writing, New York St Martin’s Press, Strand, Mark and Boland, Eavan, The Making of a Poem A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms, New York Norton, 2000. Strunk, William and White, E. Bi The Elements of Style, Massachusetts Allyn and Bacon, Szymborska, Wislawa, People on a Bridge, trans. 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Index academies, higher education 241 – 247 as open space 247 – 248 as patrons of writing 23 , 82 , 249 – 251 teaching and learning writing outside 44 , 46 , 234 – 257 Achebe, Chinua 41 activity, displacement 66 adaptation 73 agencies, literary 59 Albee, Edward 141 Allende, Isabel 164 amateur, honesty of 14 ambition, literary 15 , 30 , 56 Amis, Martin 104 anger, writing from 47 anti-narrative 89 , 163 Apollinaire, Guillaume 226 Aristotle 16 – 17 , 33 , 54 Poetics 10 , 16 Arnold, Matthew 41 Ashbery, John 41 Atwood, Margaret 41 , 104 , 142 , 148 , 185 , 215 Auden, W. H. 41 , 67 , 194 audience 91 , 142 , 211 as reader 216 – 217 creating an audience 43 , 82 , 216 , 217 – 218 , 235 writing for an audience 142 , 191 Austen, Jane 14 , 161 authenticity 211 background 47 Baker, George 16 , 116 Baudelaire, Charles 211 Beard, Richard 79 Beckett, Samuel 38 , 46 , 70 , 135 , 148 behaviour, studying human 101 Bellow, Saul 41 Berry, Cicely 219 Bierce, Ambrose 158 Bishop, Elizabeth 39 , 47 , 140 Blake, William 141 , 226 Blegvad, Peter 226 blogs see weblogs Bloom, Harold 20 , 25 , 41 , 235 Bly, Carole 16 , 177 Boden, Margaret 242 Bohr, Niels vii , 245 Boisseau, Michelle 50 , 196 Boland, Eavan 41 Booker, Christopher 9 , 164 Borges, Jorge Luis 148 , 158 Bowen, Elizabeth 127 Brahms, Johannes 133 Brande, Dorothea 97 Brodsky, Joseph 27 , 41 , 237 Bront¨e, Charlotte 88 , 92 Bront¨e, Emily 92 , 110 Wuthering Heights 88 , 92 , 110 Brook, Peter 24 Burgess, Anthony 159 Burns, Robert 202 Burroughs, William 112 and cutup technique’ 112 Byron, George Gordon 119 , 202 cadence 72 Calvino, Italo 75 Capote, Truman 264 Index 265 Carlson, Ron 96 , 157 Carver, Raymond 43 Castiglione, Baldassare 18 Cavafy, Constantine 70 Chaplin, Charlie 14 characterisation, fictional 2 , 127 , 155 , 166 , 167 – 168 , 173 main and viewpoint 168 Chatterton, Thomas 74 suicide of 74 Chatwin, Bruce 27 , 102 Chaucer, Geoffrey 16 Chekhov, Anton 158 , 174 , 209 children, impact on writers having 71 ‘circles for survival’ 56 clarity 90 , 135 , 137 , 200 Cocteau, Jean 106 , 187 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 20 , 41 Collins, Billy 29 ‘commonplace books’ 100 , 207 competitiveness 31 , 32 , 57 , 70 communities, creative 22 – 23 , 115 , 234 – 257 Connolly, Cyril 64 Enemies of Promise 64 Conrad, Joseph 96 , 159 Coover, Robert 163 Cox, Ailsa 162 creative nonfiction 37 , 59 , 177 – 193 , 242 and interviews 185 , 190 – 191 and memory 185 and point of view 186 – 187 and science 248 as a literature of reality 177 – 179 devices of 179 – 180 fieldwork for 189 , 190 – 191 finding a topic 189 – 190 general writing strategies 179 – 183 introductory structures for 181 origins of 178 qualities of accuracy and art 178 range of 191 – 192 speaking with the reader using 182 subverting the structure of 181 – 182 using experience to create 183 – 184 using passion to create 183 writing about people and the world 188 – 191 writing about travel 192 writing about yourself 183 – 188 writing a memoir 185 writing an investigation 190 writing family history 189 writing in scenes 189 creative writing and academic assessment 85 – 86 and academic standards 82 – 86 and business studies 242 , 249 and composition 88 – 124 and dangers of professionalism 14 and freedom of expression 16 , 48 – 49 and interdisciplinarity 8 , 23 , 39 , 241 and knowledge 2 , 28 , 37 , 38 , 183 , 187 – 188 and memory 185 , 200 and neural development 8 – 9 , 26 – 27 , 52 , 102 , 185 , 197 and other art forms 19 , 23 – 24 , 42 and rhetoric 17 – 19 , 76 and science 28 , 242 – 243 , 245 – 246 and the academy 16 – 17 , 30 , 85 , 241 – 247 and the community 234 – 257 and the media 82 and the publishing industry 55 – 59 , 61 , 82 and the self 1 , 7 , 46 , 142 – 153 , 212 and tradition 19 and value 156 , 197 , 211 as a craft 81 as a crossover discipline 243 – 245 as an academic discipline 1 – 33 , 54 , 82 , 241 – 247 , 252 challenges of 50 , 64 – 87 , 160 course-creation 85 , 248 distance learning 231 doctoral programmes 163 266 Index creative writing (cont.) future developments for 252 grassroots of 238 – 239 in schools 238 in self-development 3 , 143 – 153 in the world 36 – 63 , 188 – 191 , 251 learning 6 – 15 possible disciplinary origins of 15 – 19 processes of 125 – 154 some principles of practice 88 – 93 , 112 teaching 7 – 8 , 41 – 44 , 52 , 216 , 231 creativity 1 – 5 , 9 , 41 physical activity promoting 103 critical realism 39 criticism 36 – 39 and development of creative writing 20 – 21 as a complement to creative writing 25 , 36 , 89 as a negative influence on creative writers 21 , 38 , 40 , 67 within a group of writers 56 – 57 , 117 , 121 , 122 – 123 , 134 Dante 73 The Divine Comedy 73 , 85 , 254 Darwin, Charles 96 da Vinci, Leonardo 42 , 243 Dawkins, Richard 242 Dawson, Paul 7 daydreaming 97 deadlines 135 – 136 death 70 , 147 de Balzac, Honor´e 158 defamiliarisation 9 , 90 de Maupassant, Guy 128 , 158 depression 143 , 146 , 152 , 249 de Vinsauf, Geoffrey 1 , 17 Poetria Nova 1 , 17 – 18 diaries, learning 85 Dickens, Charles 50 , 149 , 217 Dickinson, Emily 30 , 110 dictionaries 103 difficulty 50 – 51 Dillard, Annie 32 , 69 , 174 Dinesen, Isak 158 discipline 69 , 95 – 99 , 129 and indiscipline 97 – 99 productive forms of 96 – 97 , 129 dissatisfaction 94 Donne, John 12 , 202 Douglas, Keith 178 , 180 Alamein to Zem Zem 180 Douglass, Frederick 178 Dove, Rita 237 drafting 57 , 86 , 91 , 174 – 175 , 199 , 210 – 211 drama 16 , 18 , 109 , 217 , 221 , 248 dreams 2 , 45 , 100 – 101 , 163 – 165 duende 12 , 110 D¨urer, Albrecht 89 economy 90 , 135 editing, close 210 editors 58 effacement 151 egoism 187 Einstein, Albert 20 eisteddfod 80 Eliot, George 151 Eliot, T. S. xvi , 14 , 41 , 60 , 194 , 240 Empson, William 41 ‘enemies of promise, concept of 64 envy 67 , 70 , 99 essays, reflective 38 , 65 , 85 expectation, raising the level of 83 experience, writing from 40 , 44 – 45 , 47 , 153 , 184 , 212 , 242 writing against your 47 experimental writing 74 – 78 failure 14 , 134 – 135 , 212 addiction to 99 importance of 68 , 69 , 134 – 135 , 212 fantasy 31 , 54 , 67 Faulkner, William 45 , 158 Fenton, James 205 Index 267 Feuchtwanger, Lion 73 fiction, practice of 155 – 176 and conflict 166 , 173 and verisimilitude 155 , 163 , 169 as ‘storymaking’ 169 – 175 beginnings 171 – 172 character driving story 166 , 168 character development 168 , 173 character history 167 – 168 dreaming a fictional continuum 163 – 165 endings 175 flash fiction 156 – 157 form and structures for contemporary literary fiction 161 – 163 narrative voice 170 novel 159 – 160 novella 159 plotting 163 – 165 point of view 169 – 171 prewriting 167 pros and cons of writing literary fiction 156 – 161 research for 160 , 167 rewriting 174 – 175 setting 173 – 174 scenes 163 , 165 short story 157 – 158 ‘storymaking or storytelling?’ 169 time 173 ‘what if propositions 172 – 173 fieldwork 101 – 102 , 149 , 167 , 189 , 190 – 191 Finlay, Ian Hamilton 227 Flaubert, Gustave 9 , 97 , 148 , 174 , 209 , 234 fluency 98 , 129 , 131 Ford, Richard 157 form 78 – 81 , 91 as a design tool 78 – 81 as a restrictive device 70 as elemental 80 and fiction 161 – 163 in poetry 203 – 207 opposition to 81 subversions of 162 , 206 – 207 Forster, E. M. 69 France, Anatole 5 , 210 Freed, Lynn 250 ‘free verse’ 81 , 196 , 205 freewriting 105 – 106 , 119 Freud, Sigmund 54 , 152 Frost, Robert 15 , 41 , 72 , 80 , 200 , 202 , 208 Frye, Northrop 187 Fuentes, Carlos 30 , 235 Fussell, Paul 205 game-playing 76 , 80 , 110 , 128 Gardner, John 15 , 20 , 38 , 41 , 43 , 90 , 160 , 163 , 166 genius 92 Gibson, William 94 Gide, Andr´e 106 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang 42 Graves, Robert 198 Greene, Graham 96 Gunn, Thom 41 Gutkind, Lee 183 Hall, Donald 22 , 210 hallucinations, auditory 26 , 27 Hardy, Thomas 102 , 166 Hawthorne, Nathaniel 158 Hazlitt, William 178 Heaney, Seamus 14 , 41 , 71 , 129 Heller, Joseph 49 Hemingway, Ernest 2 , 3 , 11 , 66 , 121 , 122 – 123 , 133 , 136 , 158 Herbert, George 12 Hill, Geoffrey 41 Hogg, James 147 Holub, Miroslav 23 , 49 , 246 Homer 166 honesty 69 , 90 , 120 , 140 , 144 , 152 , 186 , 187 , 211 Hopkins, Gerard Manley 12 hubris 44 , 164 Hughes, Ted 36 , 41 , 46 , 69 , 103 , 201 |