Writing Fiction: Creative and Critical Approaches

by Amanda Boulter, Graeme Harper (Editor)

Overview

Exploring writing as a practice, Boulter draws from the work of writers and theorists to show how cultural and literary debates can help writers enhance their own fiction. Negotiating the creative-critical crossover, this is an approachable book that helps students develop practical writing skills and a critical awareness of creative possibilities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403988119
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/01/2007
Series:	Approaches to Writing , #1
Edition description:	2007
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.46(d)

About the Author

AMANDA BOULTER is Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of Winchester, UK.

Graeme Harper is Professor of Creative Writing and Dean of The Honors College at Oakland University, Michigan, USA. He is Editor of the Approaches to Writing Series at Bloomsbury, Editor of the New Writing journal and is Chair of the Creative Writing Studies Organization (CWSO) in the USA. He was also inaugural Chair of HE at the UK's National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE) and is an award-winning fiction writer, Professor and Honorary Professor.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: FOUNDATIONS
Establishing Practice
Form and Structure
Subject
Voice
Style
Foundations of Fiction
Exercises
PART II: SPECULATIONS
Exploring Possibilities
Forms and Structures
Subjects
Voices
Styles
Speculations in Fiction
Exercises
Selected Further Reading
Index.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

For the series:'The series Harper proposes is the next step in the ongoing creative writing/criticism discussions that have dominated the field in the last decade or so. Students need texts that are overtly informed by this discussion. Professors realize this and will most likely jump at the chance to use them in their courses...' - Stephanie Vanderlice, Assistant Professor of Writing, Central University Arkansas, USA

'There is certainly great potential here for marketability; as the editor points out, there is certainly a bit of a gap in the market at the moment as regards the mixing of creative and critical approaches.' - Johnathan Taylor, Lecturer in English, Loughborough University, U

K'I believe this project has potential and could provide an exciting and innovative series of text books for students in higher education. The books look well structured and cover a wide-range of material. The idea of linking creative and critical approaches in a more obvious way is a great idea and would certainly help students to think more objectively about their writing.' - Jayne Steel, Department of English and Creative Writing, Lancaster University, UK