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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458436903321

Titolo

Does the writing workshop still work? [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Dianne Donnelly

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol, : Multilingual Matters, 2010

ISBN

1-84769-396-2

1-282-65715-1

9786612657153

1-84769-270-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Collana

New writing viewpoints

Altri autori (Persone)

DonnellyDianne

Disciplina

808/.042071

Soggetti

Creative writing

Workshops

English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching

Writing centers

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- About the Authors -- Foreword On Experience -- Introduction: If it Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix it; Or Change is Inevitable, Except from a Vending Machine -- Chapter 1. Once More to the Workshop: A Myth Caught in Time -- Chapter 2. Workshop: An Ontological Study -- Chapter 3. Small Worlds: What Works in Workshops If and When They Do? -- Chapter 4. Teaching as a Creative Act: Why the Workshop Works in Creative Writing -- Chapter 5. Workshopping and Fiction: Laboratory, Factory, or Finishing School? -- Chapter 6. Poetry, F(r)iction, Drama: The Complex Dynamics of Audience in the Writing Workshop -- Chapter 7. Engaging the Individual/Social Conflict within Creative Writing Pedagogy -- Chapter 8. Potentially Dangerous: Vulnerabilities and Risks in the Writing Workshop -- Chapter 9. ‘Its fine, I gess’:1 Problems with the Workshop Model in College Composition Courses -- Chapter 10. The Creative Writing Workshop in the Two-Year College: Who Cares? -- Chapter 11. Workshopping Lives -- Chapter 12. The Things I Used To Do:



Workshops Old and New -- Chapter 13. Re-envisioning the Workshop: Hybrid Classrooms, Hybrid Texts -- Chapter 14. Introducing Masterclasses -- Chapter 15. Wrestling Bartleby: Another Workshop Model for the Creative Writing Classroom -- Chapter 16. ‘A Space of Radical Openness’: Re-Visioning the Creative Writing Workshop -- Afterword Disciplinarity and the Future of Creative Writing Studies

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the effectiveness of the workshop in the Creative Writing classroom, and looks beyond the question of whether or not the workshop works to address the issue of what an altered pedagogical model might look like. In visualising what else is possible in the workshop space, the sixteen chapters collected in ‘Does the Writing Workshop Still Work?’ cover a range of theoretical and pedagogical topics and explore the inner workings and conflicts of the workshop model. The needs of a growing and diverse student population are central to the chapter authors’ consideration of non-normative pedagogies. The book is a must-read for all teachers of Creative Writing, as well as for researchers in Creative Writing Studies.