Journal article
‘How to do things with words’: teaching creative writing as performance
New Writing, Vol.17(3), pp.284-296
2020
Abstract
Using Elbow's model of Expressivism and J. L. Austen's notion of writing as performance, this paper outlines how performative pedagogies of creative writing practice at our university have transformed the creative writing programme. Giving examples from classes I teach, I examine the performative aspects of teaching creativity in first year courses, in collaborative writing workshops, in literature courses for creative writers, and in courses where literary theory is taught, and demonstrate how Creative Writing is taught as a perlocutionary utterance, meaningful only in its effects and contexts, a performative act that becomes itself only in the act of doing.
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- Title
- ‘How to do things with words’: teaching creative writing as performance
- Authors
- Paul A Williams (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast
- Publication details
- New Writing, Vol.17(3), pp.284-296
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2020
- DOI
- 10.1080/14790726.2019.1629964
- ISSN
- 1479-0726; 1479-0726
- Organisation Unit
- School of Business and Creative Industries; Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Creative Industries - Legacy; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99451502602621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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