Journal article
Who let the zoologists back in? Creative discourse in the Ph.D. in Creative Writing
New Writing, Vol.19(3), pp.276-286
2022
Abstract
In Australian and British universities, creative discourse is often devalued as a research activity in favour of hard scientific paradigms, and even though the artefact is the primary research activity for the Ph.D. in Creative Writing, it is relegated to a secondary way of knowing, which needs to be translated into more ‘respectable' academic discourse in order to be recognised as legitimate or ‘real’ research. This paper re–affirms the creative artefact as primary research activity, an end in itself, not a means to another, and asserts itself in the academic arena as its own discourse which is not accountable to any other discourse for its legitimacy. It needs no exegetical justification, sets its own parameters, and needs to be evaluated as a literary work using literary tools to measure its research value. This paper also examines the distinction made between Creative Writing and Creative Writing Studies in defining how an artefact creates knowledge and offers a series of philosophical experiments to examine if and how a creative artefact can be considered research, and suggests that the exegesis, rather than being the main conduit of research, is a shorthand device to demonstrate the competencies of the artefact as research.
Details
- Title
- Who let the zoologists back in? Creative discourse in the Ph.D. in Creative Writing
- Authors
- Paul Williams (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Business and Creative Industries
- Publication details
- New Writing, Vol.19(3), pp.276-286
- Publisher
- Routledge
- DOI
- 10.1080/14790726.2021.1941125
- ISSN
- 1943-3107
- Organisation Unit
- Sustainability Research Centre; Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Business and Creative Industries; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99551008602621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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