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1 online resource |
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| Contents |
Introductory Note: Minding the Gap between Was and Will Be / Thom Conroy and Gail Pittaway -- 1. Masturbating with Prostitutes: Research and the Realist Novel / Shady Cosgrove -- 2. Thresholds of Innovation: Conceptualising Imaginative Writing and Fiction Biography / James Vicars -- 3. Transgressive Consumption: Reading between the Lines of the Alcohol-based Memoir / Donna Lee Brien -- 4. History, Historical Fiction and 'Phenomenological Longing' / Thom Conroy -- 5. Writing between Two Shores: Migration and the Personal Essay / Diane Comer -- 6. Voyaging the Gap though Scandinavian Sagas of Migration to New Zealand / Gail Pittaway -- 7. Lost in Translation: Using Fictional Language as a Form of Narrative / Denise Beckton -- 8. Fault-lines: Creativity and the Lure of Language in The Carpathians / Dominique Hecq -- 9. Writing across Platforms: Adapting Classics through Social Media / Jessica Seymour -- 10. Playing with Gaps: Science and the Creative Writer / Lisa Smithies -- 11. Creative Writing Doctorate as Survival Story: Minding the Gap between Success and Failure / Jeri Kroll -- 12. Ovid's Artists and Mythic Failure / Jen Webb. |
| Summary |
"Passengers on the British railway and underground must 'mind the gap'because it's dangerous not to. In a state of embarking or disembarking, passengers must stay aware of the small but significant space separating the stationary from the moving. The contemporary practices of writing and reading are in constant motion, and the phrase 'mind the gap'captures an essential aspect of the way language and literature progress as they pass through any number of social, technical, and political exchanges. 'Minding the gap'also suggests an awareness of the always shifting distance between the expected and the unexpected, the ordinary and the impossible, the familiar and unimagined. This book includes chapters on writing non-fiction, media and genre, and also addresses elements of identity, culture and linguistics in fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction as contributors consider the gaps that exist between the self as writer, as reader and as editor or mentor. The volume adopts the following key themes: new gaps for creative writing in the academy; writing in new genres, media and forms; exploring the creative process and narrative strategies across disciplines. This book will be of international appeal to all readers interested in the changing landscape of creative writing"--EbscoHost. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Creative writing.
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Creative writing. |
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Narration (Rhetoric) |
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Electronic books.
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Erscheint auch als: Druck-Ausgabe Minding the gap . Writing across thresholds and fault lines |
| ISBN |
1443884944 (electronic book) |
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9781443884945 (electronic book) |
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1443880655 |
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9781443880657 |
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