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    Toward an Inclusive Creative Writing by Adsit, Janelle;

    Threshold Concepts to Guide the Literary Writing Curriculum

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    • Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
    • Date of Publication 5 October 2017
    • Number of Volumes Hardback

    • ISBN 9781350023864
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages208 pages
    • Size 234x156 mm
    • Weight 472 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 1 b/w illustration
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    The creative writing workshop has existed since the early part of the 20th century, but does it adequately serve the students who come to it today? While the workshop is often thought of as a form of student-centered pedagogy, it turns out that workshop conversations serve to marginalize a range of aesthetic orientations and the cultural histories to which they belong. Given the shifting demographics of higher education, it is time to re-evaluate the creative writing curriculum and move literary writing pedagogy toward a more inclusive, equitable model.

    Toward an Inclusive Creative Writing makes the argument that creative writing stands upon problematic assumptions about what counts as valid artistic production, and these implicit beliefs result in exclusionary pedagogical practices. To counter this tendency of creative writing, this book proposes a revised curriculum that rests upon 12 threshold concepts that can serve to transform the teaching of literary writing craft. The book also has a companion website www.criticalcreativewriting.org offering supplemental materials such as lesson plans and course materials.

    The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollection.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction
    Discussions of Diversity and Inclusion in Creative Writing
    Threshold Concepts to Guide the Literary Writing Curriculum
    Toward an Inclusive Creative Writing Pedagogy

    1. Privileged Assumptions and Assumptions of Privilege
    What the VIDA Count Tells about Teaching
    Exclusionary Constructions of the Writer's Life
    Finding a Voice
    The Lonely Writer
    Leisure and Unalienated Labor
    The Writer as Exceptional
    Mapping Pedagogical Constructions of the Writer
    Progressive Pedagogical Approaches
    Humanist Pedagogical Approaches
    Professionalizing Pedagogical Approaches
    Auditioning Pedagogical Approaches
    Experimental Pedagogical Approaches
    Therapeutic Pedagogical Approaches
    Populism and Elitism in Creative Writing
    Exclusionary Assumptions about Writers and Writing

    2. Marginalized Aesthetics
    Policing Intention: Polemics against Polemics
    Policing Taste: Ideologies of Craft
    Policing Emotion: Scorn of Excess
    The Diversity of the Textual Landscape

    3. The Threshold Concepts in Creative Writing
    Concept 1: Attention
    Concept 2: Creativity
    Concept 3: Authorship
    Concept 4: Language
    Concept 5: Genre
    Concept 6: Craft
    Concept 7: Community
    Concept 8: Evaluation
    Concept 9: Representation
    Concept 10: Resistance
    Concept 11: Theory
    Concept 12: Revision
    Threshold Concepts and Learning Outcomes

    4. Toward an Inclusive Pedagogy
    Starting Points
    Reading
    Workshop
    Evaluation and Grading

    Coda: Reimagining Creative Writing's Institutional Practices

    Appendix A - List of Craft Texts Surveyed in Chapters One and Two


    Appendix B - Sample Syllabus

    Notes
    Index

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