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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"creative writers"”.
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An Analysis of Undergraduate Creative Writing Students'Writing Processes: Gauging the Workshop Models' Effectiveness Through the Lens of Genre Theories
Current approaches to teaching creative writers the ways to success in creative writing courses consist largely of workshop style classes. While workshops often vary from class to class in style, generally a workshop will consist of a group of writers, led by a mentor/instructor, who exchange …
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A Linguistic and Literary Analysis of the Writings of Arab Americans in English
… the different literary devices used by the creative writers to convey culture. And to show how bilingual literature serves to express culture to both the monolingual speaker as well as the bilingual speaker.
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Cross-cultural refractions: India in English Romantic poetry
"Creative writers of the English Romantic period often felt the allure of India, for India ""stirred"" their Imagination. This dissertation explores the question Why? through analyzing historical phenomena like England's colonization of India and the Oriental Renaissance, through considering the …
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In Search of Copia: Using Rhetoric to Teach Creative Writing
… the impact of Romantic beliefs about writing on creative writing pedagogy, as well as exploring how those beliefs hamper the critical function of the workshop. Romantic beliefs have enforced the idea that talent and genius is most important in creative writing, and that writing is spontaneous, …
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Moving fiction : novelists, technology designers, and the art of the exchange
… the exchange: temporary collaborations between creative writers and interaction designers which lead to new forms of fiction and communications technology. I promote close readings of literature as a starting point for the exchange, examining specific passages for mobile storytelling inspiration …
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Narrating Literary Transnationalism in Zake Smith and Dave Eggers
… hinders the literary academy's relevancy since creative writers today are addressing changes to the national structure in their fictive works. This study suggests why a new theoretical construct is needed to understand those texts, and it uses two representative examples: Zadie Smith's novel …
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Science, politics, and soul-making: the Romantic encounter with climate change
… all provided reference points for Romantic writers to challenge and rethink the relationship between humans and their climate. Focusing on several major writers from 1780 to 1880 (William Cowper, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, John Keats and John Ruskin), I argue that an epistemic shift …
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Is that what you’re wearing? Gender diversity in contemporary fiction, a novel and exegesis
… texts are an under-researched area from a creative writing standpoint. Is That What You’re Wearing? Gender Diversity in Contemporary Fiction, A Novel and Exegesis is a creative writing doctoral thesis which critically interrogates the signifiers and tropes that are employed to produce …
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Historiography in modern poetry: text, imagination and authority in the work of David Jones, Geoffrey Hill and Ian Duhig; and King Harold: a long poem in three parts
… academic and historical texts. Occasioned by creative writers’ increasing involvement in the academy, it considers the consequences of this relationship for contemporary poetry praxis. Through close readings of David Jones’ Anathemata, Geoffrey Hill’s Mercian Hymns and Ian Duhig’s The Speed of …
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A saga of black deglorification : the disfigurement of Africa in Ayi Kwei Armah's novels
… closely analysed, they will emerge as a single creative mythology devoted to the fictional disfigurement of Black Africa from primeval times to the present. An analysis of Afiican writings reveals that a body of contemporary African literature has and is still undergoing a distinctive …
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Buried Feelings, Standing Stones: Secularity, Animism, and Late-Victorian Pagan Revivalism
… to Victorian scholarship by showing how creative writers from the 1860s to the 1890s participated in the revival of paganism in ways that respond to and challenge Victorian secularity.
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Spelling violation: writing bodies from the margins
… has proved potently injurious to them. These are writers shaped by material and linguistic violation---sexism, homophobia, political and military repression, artistic and economic oppression, racism and colonialism---and are drawn to---and draw upon---writing violation as a personally incarnating …
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Death as Poetics of Dislocation in the Global South: René Depestre, Maryse Condé, and Santiago Gamboa
… a context of political and cultural domination, creative writers found themselves in the privileged but constrictive position of being the voice of a national community that was invested in articulating and affirming its cultural particularism. Death as Poetics of Dislocation surveys a gradual …
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A study of peer tutor training programs and a peer tutor training program for Drake University
… and colleges have had writing workshops for creative writers. However, during the late 1960s and early 1970s, college and university administrators and department heads moved to establish workshops for remedial writers. Two things precipitated this movement: one, writing theorists recognized …
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'The Play Script', an action research study into playwriting in senior classes in the primary school
… I identified a gap in the provision of genres of creative writing available to the teacher. As a community playwright, I recognised the potential of playwriting for young creative writers. As a researcher, I discovered that there was scant literature reporting on this area. I was convinced that an …