Southward, D. (2016) Dealing with the Creative/Critical Divide: These men as readers simply cannot know what it is to write. New Writing, 13 (2). 12. pp. 273-280. ISSN 1943-3107
Abstract
This paper analyses the contested or dual role of the creative writing researcher within the academic environment. By examining the opinions of creative writers with regard to critical theorists, and the reverse, the case will be made that an unnecessary binary is forced on creative researchers. This binary, making the writer choose whether to focus on creative or critical output, cannot be productive for the writer in academia and so a third option will be proposed, a means by which to confront the continual oscillation between these two poles. A methodology is suggested, and explored, which engages with both the creative and critical aspects of this specific form of research in an equal and cyclical manner. In order to explore the application of this methodology, the author’s own research into a project exploring current literary theory acts as a case study, ultimately leading to a metamodern understanding of this desire to occupy both roles, despite the seeming impossibility of such.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 Taylor & Francis. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in New Writing. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Creative Writing; Metamodernism; Critical Theory; Experimentation; Writing |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 21 Jul 2016 15:50 |
Last Modified: | 07 Sep 2017 09:40 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:100823 |