Eureka! Summer 2004 Workshops
How to Make Literature:
Teaching Creative Writing as Literature and Vice-Versa
Leader: Dr. Tony Crunk
Date: Thursday, July 8, 2004
Time: 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Place: Henley Room, Mervyn H. Sterne Library (Second Floor)
Presentation Overview
The workshop will explore the possibilities and rewards of using creative
writing as an approach to studying literature, and vice-versa.
We'll begin with a series of in-class creative writing exercises that will
introduce some basic concepts in creative writing pedagogy -- e.g.,
aesthetic experience, figurative vs. literal language, writing as a process
of exploration and discovery, and the social dimension of creativity.
We'll then develop and apply these concepts as useful tools in examining
works of literature. We'll discuss a sample of brief works as writers,
considering the particular challenges the authors of these works have set
for themselves, how they've shaped their work in response to those
challenges, why they've made the decisions they've made in crafting the
work into its final form.
A last step will be to apply these insights to a final creative writing
challenge / project we will ourselves pursue through some concluding
in-class writing exercises.
The workshop will be very hands-on, with most of the discussion arising
from the participants' own writing experiences.
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