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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456661903321

Autore

Vandermeulen Carl

Titolo

Negotiating the Personal in Creative Writing / / Carl Vandermeulen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Blue Ridge Summit, PA : , : Multilingual Matters, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

1-283-22478-X

9786613224781

1-84769-439-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Collana

New Writing Viewpoints

Disciplina

808.042071

808/.042071

Soggetti

Creative writing -- Study and teaching

Writing centers

Creative writing - Study and teaching

Languages & Literatures

English

English Language

Literature - General

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Negotiating the Personal and Interpersonal -- Chapter 1. Considering Where We’re Coming From -- Chapter 2. The Workshop: ‘More or Less Unfortunate Misunderstandings’ -- Chapter 3. Reflection and the Dialogic Self -- Chapter 4. Response in Writers’ Groups -- Chapter 5. Teacher Response to Student Writing -- Chapter 6. Negotiating Authority as Teachers, Models, Mentors -- Chapter 7. Problems and Crises in Relationships -- Chapter 8. Resolving Dilemmas of Grading -- Chapter 9. Constructing the Practice and Identity of ‘Writer’ -- References

Sommario/riassunto

This book describes an alternative way to teach Creative Writing, one that replaces the silent writer taking criticism and advice from the



teacher-led workshop with an active writer who reflects upon and publically questions the work-in-progress in order to solicit response, from a writers' group as well as from the teacher. Both accompany the writer, first as readers and fellow writers, only later as critics. Because writers ask, they listen, and dialogues with responders become an inner dialogue that guides later writing and revision. But when teachers accompany writers, teaching CW becomes even more a negotiation of the personal because this teacher who is listener and mentor is also a model for some students of the writer and even the person they would like to become - and still the Authority who gives the grades.