Why I’m No Longer a Proper Academic
By Irina Dumitrescu. A talk given at the Creative Critical launch event at UCL’s Institute for Advanced Studies in September 2022.
Malavika S. Udayan. Dining with Gertrude Stein: Parody and Pointing
I was a student in Thomas Karshan’s seminar on Ludic Literature at the University of East Anglia in the early months of 2022. We met, once a week, for three hours, sitting around a horseshoe table. We read and talked and imitated and parodied and played. Eventually, I wrote ‘A Dinner Party’, as part of the classroom exercise to imitate Gertrude Stein’s writings. It includes phrases which I have picked out of Tender Buttons. Unlike the poems of Tender Buttons, it appears as a long central passageway or a column, aligned centrally to the page, like the empty column at the centre of our horseshoe.
Creative Writing as Research: an Annotated Bibliography
By Gabriel Flynn. The emergence of PhD programs in creative writing poses questions about the nature of writing, research, and knowledge, some of which have complex histories that long predate the disciplines of creative writing and English Literature. This bibliography is aimed primarily at those who are interested in pursuing a PhD in creative writing and wishing to gain some knowledge of how such a possibility came about and find answers to some of the questions it raises.
Radical Continuum: on the Relationship Between the Creative and the Critical
By Gregory Leadbetter. To contemplate afresh the relation between the ‘creative’ and the ‘critical’ is to recognise a long conventional – and still highly influential – contrast between these terms within the history of criticism…
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