Author: Anstandig, Beth

Brand: PEARSON EDUCATION

Edition: 1

Features:

• Anthology for Creative Writers uses a multi-genre approach. It covers the full spectrum of genre possibilities while exploring diverse styles, themes, experiences, and forms. Provides students with solid examples of many forms. Instructors do not have to assign multiple texts.
• Provides students with solid examples of many forms.
• Instructors do not have to assign multiple texts.
• Readings have been conscientiously chosen to offer plentiful good examples of writing in each genre (creative non-fiction, short fiction, poetry, experimental writing, and writing about writing). Innovative creative writing emerges when students are presented with readings that inspire them.
• Innovative creative writing emerges when students are presented with readings that inspire them.
• Each section of the book begins with a highlighted piece of writing, called Quintessentials, that is exemplary in illustrating the capacity of the genre followed by a brief expository essay discussing the issues of craft and form. Provides students with valuable writing guidance.
• Provides students with valuable writing guidance.
• Writing exercises, Catalysts, at the beginning of each section. Enables students to perfect their creative writing skills.
• Enables students to perfect their creative writing skills.
• Light-handed pedagogical strategy. Since much of the classroom experience relies on the dynamic of the group, the workshop model, and the instructor's own artistic sensibilities, the authors kept pedagogy to a minimum and provided a vast array of quality reading selections.
• Since much of the classroom experience relies on the dynamic of the group, the workshop model, and the instructor's own artistic sensibilities, the authors kept pedagogy to a minimum and provided a vast array of quality reading selections.
• Anthology for Creative Writers uses a multi-genre approach. It covers the full spectrum of genre possibilities while exploring diverse styles, themes, experiences, and forms. Provides students with solid examples of many forms. Instructors do not have to assign multiple texts.
• Provides students with solid examples of many forms.
• Instructors do not have to assign multiple texts.
• Readings have been conscientiously chosen to offer plentiful good examples of writing in each genre (creative non-fiction, short fiction, poetry, experimental writing, and writing about writing). Innovative creative writing emerges when students are presented with readings that inspire them.
• Innovative creative writing emerges when students are presented with readings that inspire them.
• Each section of the book begins with a highlighted piece of writing, called Quintessentials, that is exemplary in illustrating the capacity of the genre followed by a brief expository essay discussing the issues of craft and form. Provides students with valuable writing guidance.
• Provides students with valuable writing guidance.
• Writing exercises, Catalysts, at the beginning of each section. Enables students to perfect their creative writing skills.
• Enables students to perfect their creative writing skills.
• Light-handed pedagogical strategy. Since much of the classroom experience relies on the dynamic of the group, the workshop model, and the instructor's own artistic sensibilities, the authors kept pedagogy to a minimum and provided a vast array of quality reading selections.
• Since much of the classroom experience relies on the dynamic of the group, the workshop model, and the instructor's own artistic sensibilities, the authors kept pedagogy to a minimum and provided a vast array of quality reading selections.

Number Of Pages: 576

PartNumber: RKC2006600911

Release Date: 15-02-2006

Details: For courses in creative writing. A Garden of Forking Paths is an anthology of contemporary literature that covers the full spectrum of genre possibilities while exploring diverse styles, themes, experiences, and forms. The readings in this text inspire the emergence of innovative creative writing. In a multi-genre creative writing course, an instructor faces the dilemma of assigning several texts in order to offer good examples of writing in each genre. This text solves this problem by presenting large samplings of creative non-fiction, short fiction, poetry, alternative forms, and essays concerning craft. Story: Beth Anstandig and Eric Killough, guided by fiction writer, essayist, and poet Robert Creeley's belief that all writing is essentially the act of articulation and that "form is content, content form," brought together as many successful examples of creative ideas and writing styles as possible in a single volume. They grouped these writings by genre for ease of use so that you can choose how you want to spend your reading time. From science fiction writer Philip K. Dick to naturalist Charles Bowden, you will find in the garden that each author has labored to articulate at least one of the seemingly infinite possibilities that the creative spirit can bring into being. Many of the authors in the text have successfully created works of written art using more than one genre. Beth Anstandig and Eric Killough created this text in hope that these examples will inspire your students to experiment in multiple genres as well.

EAN: 9780131135017

Model: RKC2006600911

Languages: English

Binding: paperback

Item Condition: New