TheCreativity Market: Creative Writing in the 21st Century

Published by Multilingual Matters 2012

TheCreativity Market

Creative Writing in the 21st Century

Edited by: Dominique Hecq

In the series New Writing Viewpoints

https://doi.org/10.21832/9781847697110

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About this book

This book focuses on creative writing both as a subject in universities around the world and beyond academia. It offers a thought-provoking analysis of creativity in the globalised marketplace, and examines the intersection of the university sector and the creative industries.

Author / Editor information

Hecq Dominique :

Dominique Hecq is Associate Professor in Writing at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia. Dominique is also Editor of Bukker Tillibul: The Online Journal of Practice-Led Research.

Reviews

This book is an excellent addition to studies in Creative Writing. Its contributors are each, in their own way, outward looking towards the positioning of contemporary creative arts and writing. Their scholarship and creativity engages in-depth with institutional, economic and cultural influences, and constraints, upon contemporary production of creative writing in the 21st century.

This timely and comprehensive study brings prominent Australian and international scholars together to consider the interplay of global capital, the marketplace and creative writing in the 21st century. This landmark volume also examines creative writing's important but often unacknowledged contribution to global innovation and the knowledge economy. A must read text for teachers, students, writers and anyone interested in creative writing, creativity and the global marketplace in the new millennium.

After the 'long work' of alienating creativity from commercial-political worlds, this book is evidence of a new consciousness of the ways these realms overlap, seed, deform and enliven each other. This exchange between writers from UK, the USA, Canada, Australia and Singapore debates and ponders whether creative writing might be a brilliant career move, a player in resurgent global education, a search for community, therapy, magic, an un-saleable invention, or our last real craft.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xii
In Lieu of a Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Creative Writing: The Ghost, the University and the Future Graeme Harper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	12
2. Banking on Creativity: My Brilliant? Career Dominique Hecq Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
3. Creativity and the Marketplace Jen Webb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
4. The Publishing Paradigm: Commercialism versus Creativity Jeremy Fisher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
5. As Good As It Gets? National Research Evaluations Gerry Turcotte and Robyn Morris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
6. Creative Writing, Neo-Liberalism and the Literary Paradigm Jeff Sparrow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
7. Nothing is Free in this Life Antonia Pont Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
8. The Ghost in the Machine: Creative Writing and its Malcontents Phillip Edmonds Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
9. Creativity, Compromise and Waking Up with the Funding Devil Mike Harris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
10. Entering the Fictitious: A Play in Two Acts Christopher Lappas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
11. Using the Spectrum to Theorise Apparent Opposition in Creative Writing Doctorates Vahri McKenzie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
12. Outlying the Point that Tips: Bridging Academia and Business Pavlina Radia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
13. Selling It: Creative Writing and the Public Good Thom Vernon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
14. On the Commercialisation of Creativity in the Merlion State Eric Tinsay Valles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
Afterword: Creativity, the Market and the Globalisation Challenge Kirpal Singh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216

Language: English
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Pages
- Main content: 240

eBook

Published: April 5, 2012
ISBN: 9781847697110