Creative Writing and the Radical: Teaching and Learning the Fiction of the Future

by Nigel Krauth

Overview

The rise of digital publishing and the ebook has opened up an array of possibilities for the writer working with innovation in mind. Creative Writing and the Radical uses an examination of how experimental writers in the past have explored the possibilities of multimodal writing to theorise the nature of writing fiction in the future. It is clear that experimental writers rehearsed for technological advances long before they were invented.  Through an in-depth study of writers and their motivations, challenges and solutions, the author explores the shifts creative writing teachers and students will need to make in order to adapt to a new era of fiction writing and reading. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783095926
Publisher:	Channel View Publications
Publication date:	07/18/2016
Series:	New Writing Viewpoints , #13
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Nigel Krauth is Professor of Creative Writing at Griffith Universityin Australia. He has published four novels, and co-authored a number of books for Young Adults. He is General Editor of TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. The Concept of the Radical in Writing

2. The Radical in the 20th Century

3. Radical Experiments 1: Words

4. Radical Experiments 2: The Page, the Book

5. Radical Experiments 3: Narrative, Visuals, Sound

6. Experiments in Writing for Children

7. Fiction and the Future

8. Teaching and Learning the New Creative Writing

References

Editorial Reviews

Would-be 19th-century visual artists rejoiced in the Salon des Refuses – the site where they could display work rejected by the establishment. Would-be 21st-century writers can rejoice in Nigel Krauth’s Creative Writing and the Radical, a celebration of the ‘resurrection of the author’ as off-the-wall creator.

Gary Crew

Nigel Krauth’s Creative Writing and the Radical is itself a radical intervention in creative writing studies. Krauth gives an incisive account of the history of experimental fiction, and argues cogently for a multimodal, non-linear and technological approach to creative writing. This landmark book brings the creative writing classroom into the digital and multimedia era.

Hazel Smith

Nigel Krauth’s exploration of radical writing from the perspective of both writer and teacher afloat in the multimodal age is extraordinarily valuable — at once wide-ranging, historically and theoretically savvy, provocative, instructive, inspiring, and accessible. A must read for anyone interested in the challenges, opportunities, and attractions involved in composing the contemporary.

Lance Olsen