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Graeme Harper
The Creative Writing Compass presents a dynamic navigational instrument for creative writers, providing a method for developing and advancing knowledge of creative writing. Award-winning novelist Graeme Harper explores the many…
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This book explores three exciting and key areas of creative writing practice and understanding. What stimulates a writer to write - or to write a particular piece? What do they…
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This work deals with capture, imprisonment and punishment in colonial and post-colonial cultures. Each chapter focuses on a specific national or regional arena, providing insight into the social, economic and…
This work assesses the role and character of comedy and fantasy in colonial societies from India to Ireland, Australia to Cuba, Africa to North America. It deals with both oral…
Featuring a collection of twelve teaching-focussed essays, this work includes an introduction to the subject of creative writing by Graeme Harper. Each chapter draws on key points about the nature…
Helping readers learn creative writing, this book includes advice, exercises and readings. It sets out an informative introduction to writing creatively. It contains introductions to genres of writing, including the…
This volume is constructed around several significant questions, relevant to every honors program and national perspective.
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Not so many years ago, Making Up: Research in Creative Writing could not have existed. It could not have existed because at the time of its conception in the countries…
New Ideas in the Writing Arts has come about because recent changes taking place in educational settings have influenced the ways in which learners and teachers are exploring Creative Writing.
What is Creative Writing? Millions of people do it, but how do we do it, really? What evidence of its undertaking does Creative Writing produce? How do we explore Creative…
High profile writers, including Philip Pullman, Nadine Gordimer, Kate Grenville and Robert Pinsky, talk about their writing practice and ways of working. Designed with the needs of creative writers in…
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How can we support, develop and maintain higher education programs that focus on high academic achievement, while at the same time allowing equitable access to, and progress in, higher learning?
In this dynamic exploration of the discipline of creative writing, Graeme Harper departs from the established ‘how-to’ model in a personal manifesto which analyses why human beings are, and have…
Creative Writing Analysis is a guide to solving creative writing problems; acting as a practical introduction to progressing a creative writing project as well as an exploration of the many…
Signs of Life explores the political implications of the representations of doctors, nurses, patients, diseases and disabilities, and considers how formal qualities of cinema - empirical observation, mise-en-scene, propaganda and…
Explores the effect and considerable legacy of Surrealism on film. This book offers views of canonical Surrealist works from Bunuel, Jan Svankmajer and David Lynch, alongside analyses of surrealist aspects…
This book explores creative writing and its various relationships to education through a number of short, evocative chapters written by key players in the field. At times controversial, the book…
In this compelling collection of essays contributors critically examine Creative Writing in American Higher Education. Considering Creative Writing teaching, learning and knowledge, the book recognizes historical strengths and weaknesses. Most…
This is a book about discovering how you do creative writing. How you begin, how you structure, how your writing process works, how a work embodies movement and change, what…
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Critical Approaches to Creative Writing covers the background, context, evidence and modes of critical exposition and exposes it as a widely taught and learnt activity that leads to a better…
This volume offers a collection of articles based on presentations given in recent years at the annual Great Writing International Creative Writing conference.
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A Companion to Creative Writing comprehensively considers key aspects of the practice, profession and culture of creative writing in the contemporary world.
A guide to the modes and methods of Creative Writing research, designed to be invaluable to university staff and students in formulating research ideas, and in selecting appropriate strategies. Creative…
Here creative writers who are also university teachers monitor their contribution to this popular discipline in essays that indicate how far it has come in the USA, the UK and…
This volume explores the teaching, learning and researching of creative writing. It outlines current issues, as defined by experts from the UK, USA and Australia. These expert contributors suggest solutions…
In this book, scholars from across the world explore the appearance, portrayal and significance of the suburb on film.
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This dynamic collection offers a breadth of expertise and informed pedagogies on teaching multimodal and digital creative writing in the college classroom. This book gives clear guidance with lesson plans…
Edgar G. Ulmer: Detour on Poverty Row examines the full scope of the career of this often overlooked film auteur, with essays exploring individual films, groups of films (such as…
No single recent enterprise has done more to enlarge and deepen our understanding of one of the most critical periods in English history. ANTIQUARIES JOURNAL
