| Keywords in Creative Writing Contributor(s): Bishop, Wendy (Author), Starkey, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 087421629X ISBN-13: 9780874216295 Publisher: Utah State University Press OUR PRICE: $26.68 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2006 Annotation: Wendy Bishop and David Starkey have created a remarkable resource volume for creative writing students and other writers just getting started. In two- to ten-page discussions, these authors introduce forty-one central concepts in the fields of creative writing and writing instruction, with discussions that are accessible yet grounded in scholarship and years of experience. " Keywords in Creative Writing provides a brief but comprehensive introduction to the field of creative writing through its landmark terms, exploring concerns as abstract as postmodernism and identity politics alongside very practical interests of beginning writers, like contests, agents, and royalties. This approach makes the book ideal for the college classroom as well as the writer's bookshelf, and unique in the field, combining the pragmatic accessibility of popular writer's handbooks, with a wider, more scholarly vision of theory and research. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Rhetoric - Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - Arts & Humanities - Education | Higher |
| Dewey: 808.042 |
| LCCN: 2005024616 |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 6.1" W x 9.02" (0.88 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Wendy Bishop and David Starkey have created a remarkable resource volume for creative writing students and other writers just getting started. In two- to ten-page discussions, these authors introduce forty-one central concepts in the fields of creative writing and writing instruction, with discussions that are accessible yet grounded in scholarship and years of experience. Keywords in Creative Writing provides a brief but comprehensive introduction to the field of creative writing through its landmark terms, exploring concerns as abstract as postmodernism and identity politics alongside very practical interests of beginning writers, like contests, agents, and royalties. This approach makes the book ideal for the college classroom as well as the writer's bookshelf, and unique in the field, combining the pragmatic accessibility of popular writer's handbooks, with a wider, more scholarly vision of theory and research. |