Composition, Creative Writing Studies, and the Digital Humanities [Hardcover]

In an era of blurred generic boundaries, multimedia storytelling, and open-source culture, creative writing scholars stand poised to consider the role that technology-and the creative writer's playful engagement with technology-has occupied in the evolution of its theory and practice.

Composition, Creative Writing Studies and the Digital Humanitiesis the first book to bring these three fields together to open up new opportunities and directions for creative writing studies. Placing the rise of Creative Writing Studies alongside the rise of the digital humanities in Composition/Rhetoric, Adam Koehler shows that the use of new media and its attendant re-evaluation of fundamental assumptions in the field stands to guide Creative Writing Studies into a new era. Covering current developments in composition and the digital humanities, this book re-examines established assumptions about process, genre, authority/authorship and pedagogical practice in the creative writing classroom.

Adam Koehleris Associate Professor of English at Manhattan College, USA.

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1. Digital Pasts: On Composition, Creative Writing, and Emerging Technologies

Chapter 2. Defining Digital Creative Writing Studies

Chapter 3. Ideology, Subjectivity, and the Creative Writer in the Digital Age

Chapter 4. Process, Genre, and Technologizing the Word

Chapter 5. Fenceless Neighbors: On Composition, Creative Writing, and Emerging Institutional Practices

Notes

Works Cited and Consulted

Index

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