From Language to Creative Writing
An Introduction
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 17 January 2013
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781408175217
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages176 pages
- Size 240x186x10 mm
- Weight 360 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This textbook offers an innovative introduction to the study of English language and the practice, skills and strategies of creative writing. It is unique in helping to develop both a better appreciation of how language is used and the skills to successfully craft writing in distinctive ways.
MoreLong description:
Developed by The Open University, this textbook offers an innovative introduction to the study of the English language and the practices, skills and strategies of creative writing. For anyone studying English Language or Creative Writing at tertiary level or in higher education, or for developing writers and those interested in the nature of linguistic creativity, it offers a uniquely integrated approach. Readers will better understand the structure and uses of language and be able to use a full range of strategies in crafting and developing their own writing.
Offering a detailed investigation of language, the authors examine both everyday use and examples from literature and the media to illustrate the diverse ways in which language is used in a variety of social contexts. They consider accent and dialect, standard and non-standard English, how language use varies according to its purpose, and the relationship it has to identity.
Interwoven with the study of language are creative writing chapters that introduce strategies for the reader to draw upon in their own writing. Practical writing exercises develop the ability to select and shape language for different effects, create 'voice' in a story, and utilise patterns of sound in the composition of poetry. This unique textbook will develop a better appreciation of language in use, as well as the skills to craft writing in distinctive ways.
Table of Contents:
List of tables and figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: From language to creative writing
The study of language and the practice of creative writing
Speech and dialect
Inventing a voice
Speech and conversation
Inventing dialogue
Writing and register
Context, time and point of view
'Literary' language
Writing poetry
Afterword: How we shape language to express ourselves
Glossary
References
Index
