scholarly journals Dialogue of Cultures in the Creative Work by Czeslaw Milosz

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 329-344
Author(s):  
Mikalai Khmialnitski
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Cultural Models ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Literary Representation ◽  
Czeslaw Milosz ◽  
Political Events

The aticle deals with the peculiarity of the literary representation of multiculturalism and the borderland in creative work by Czesław Miłosz. The factors which influenced the development of Milosz’s poetry are revealed, the life of the author in Wilno in the inter-war period is considered, and the romantic tradition of Adam Mizkiewicz is outlined. The cultural and political events which were reflected in the legacy of Miłosz are examined; the period of emigration and the homecoming are studied. The cultural and national specificity of the borderland, which affected the creative writing of Miłosz, is depicted, and distinct ethnic and cultural models, images and symbols in the author’s ideological and artistic inquiries are analyzed. 

Uncreative Writing

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Roach
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Toni Morrison ◽  
Creative Expression ◽  
First Century ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Philip Roth ◽  
Literary Representation ◽  
Twenty First Century

This chapter demonstrates that, thanks to the heavy reliance of publishers’ marketing departments on author interviews as a means of promotion, today interviews are increasingly conceived through their opposition to creative writing. Drawing on the examples of Philip Roth, Toni Morrison, and J. M. Coetzee, the chapter demonstrates that interviews have become the quintessential example of uncreative, instrumental, authorial labour. However, in a time in which literature is frequently conceived in opposition to information, interviews also become a productive site for authors to reflect on the nature of literary representation and contemporary creative work. In their opposition to creative writing, interviews can also become an example of ‘uncreative writing’. As information surplus and networked digital computing make traditional, primarily print-based, norms of authorship, creativity, and inscription less tenable, for some of the authors discussed here the interview offers a generative site for exploring new modes of creative expression fit for the twenty-first century.

scholarly journals Relief: Observations on Creative Nonfiction as Pedagogy

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 249-258
Author(s):  
Mark Silverberg
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Creative Nonfiction ◽  
Nursing Student ◽  
Standard English ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Aesthetic Appreciation ◽  
Esl Students ◽  
Personal Writing ◽  
Pedagogical Tool

“Relief: Observations on Creative Nonfiction as Pedagogy” offers a case study in the possibilities of using creative writing as a pedagogical tool with ESL students. Analyzing the experience, comments, and creative work of a Chinese nursing student named Wei Wan at Ryerson University, the essay explores the benefits of personal writing and peer workshops as tools for self-exploration, aesthetic appreciation, and confidence building. While urging teachers to see the advantages of this methodology, the paper also reflects on the literary values of creative work in hybrid, non-standard English forms.

scholarly journals «Steppe eagle» a play by O. P. Chuhuy – a sample of drama portrait in the genre system of the author’s biographical creative work

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Native Language ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Main Attention ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Maximal Tension ◽  
National Liberation Movement ◽  
Actual Material

Despite the fact, that literary work of O.P. Chuhuy has already become an object of scientific research by A. Novikov, T. Kononchuk, T. Virchenko and others, drama portrait still remains unnoticed by literary critics. The aim of the author’s research is an attempts to analyze the chosen type of biographical work which requires keeping a specific filling of measure while using actual material and fiction. The peculiarities of using biographical material in the literary work of O.P. Chuhuy, in particular when creating the images of H. Skovoroda, V. Karazin, O. Kurbas, V. Ivasuk and others are surveyed in the article. The main attention is concentrated on analyzing the bibliographical portrait of I.P. Kotlyarevskiy, the famous of the new Ukrainian literature, created by O.P. Chuhuy in his play “Steppe eagle” (which appeared in 2012), reflecting his versatile activity aimed of defending the rights of the Ukrainian people for their identity, realizing cultural and enlightment process in their native language. A high mastery of the author in plot creating, in building up characters, very often by just a few phrases, making up monologs and dialogues, independent of space and time, for that matter, in widely using folklore in confirmed. The important role of drama portrait for achieving of genre diversity of the authors plays is emphasized. The above works by O.P. Chuhuy testify to complete mastery of biographical genre in the process of drama reflection of the reality, great mastery of using techniques and means of poetics, in particular, when choosing conflicts and characters capable of fighting either to a complete victory or failure, achieving maximal tension, unity and concentration of action, expressive psychological characteristics. Thanks to these peculiarities of the play I.P. Kotlyarevskiy as a personality is shown multi-faceted and attractive way so typical of him, closely connected with social and political events of that time, in particular, with the desembrist community and national liberation movement. That is why, the drama portrait created by O.P. Chuhuy in “Steppe eagle” maybe used not only by the teachers of high and secondary schools but also by all admires and masters of literature, music and theatre and hence is worth of being staged by the talented servants of Melpomene.

scholarly journals PENGEMBANGAN KOMPETENSI CREATIVE WRITING DALAM PEMBELAJARAN SASTRA DI PERGURUAN TINGGI

LITERA ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Putra Manuaba
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Ideal Model ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Writing Theory ◽  
Writing Course ◽  
Writing Competence ◽  
Depth Interviews

This study aims to identify creative writing aspects and formulate a model for the development of creative writing competence. It was a qualitative study involving literature students from four universities in Surabaya. The data were collected through in-depth interviews. The findings show that only few students have writing experience. The learning model in the campus is one important aspect that can motivate students to write. An ideal model for the development of creative writing competence is one that integrates a variety of aspects that can develop creative writing. Some important aspects include (1) a creative writing course inliterature learning as a compulsory course at universities, (2) theory and practice (practice being more dominant than theory) for literature students, (3) attempts to make lecturers good at writing theory and practice, (4) reading enrichment in quality literary works, and (5) use of creative processes from high quality authors as inspiring part of creative work writing.

Gintera Grasa pēdējās atzīšanās

2020 ◽  
pp. 242-246
Author(s):  
Juris Andrejs Kastiņš
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tale ◽  
German History ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Political Aspect ◽  
Literature And Politics ◽  
Historical Material ◽  
The People ◽  
Political Events ◽  
University Of Göttingen ◽  
The University

The article is dedicated to the Günter Grass’s (1927–2015) second posthumous book “In letzter Zeit” that came out in 2017. Heinrich Detering, a professor at the University of Göttingen and a friend of the poet, has compiled the last interviews with Grass and discussions on literature and politics. The concept of the book is based on critical analysis of Grass’s works, treating them not as comments on political events, but as expressions of the poet’s creative work, in which he was able to harmoniously merge and consolidate the fairy tale, art, and joy of imagination in one masterpiece. Detering looks at Grass’s life from the socio-political aspect, emphasising the writer’s role in the life of the country and the people. Grass’s social themes (German history, splitting of the state and reunification, refugee policy, etc.) are gradually crystallizing in the collection, not forgetting the events of German literary life and giving them a principled assessment and putting the culture of criticism as one of the most important issues. The dialogues with Grass, collected and published by Detering, is a valuable cultural and historical material both for the research of the writer’s creative work and for the evaluation of German literary processes.

scholarly journals Between Scientists, Writers and Artists: Theorising and Critiquing Knowledge-Production at the Interstices between Disciplines

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (1 and 2) ◽  
pp. 399-412
Author(s):  
Aaron Plasek
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Fine Art ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Interdisciplinary Work ◽  
Science And Art

Stars are Symbols was a collaboration between more than 40 individual writers, poets, artists, and scientists. Each writer/artist conversed with a scientist about the research the scientist was conducting. They then generated new creative work inspired by this process. All the art, creative writing and scientific research was galleried, culminating in an Associated Writing Programmes Conference Off-Site Reading on 7 April 2010. This paper considers some challenging questions that an exhibition like Stars are Symbols engenders. What can we hope to learn about the intersections of science and art by responding to these intersections in discipline-specific modes such as creative writing or fine art? How does one discuss such exhibitions in a precise manner that neither simplifies nor misrepresents ideas in science, nor echoes trite bromides, but helps us recognize new perspectives about the discourses we are considering? Three categories of interdisciplinary work are posited: convergent, radical, and phantasmal. Tentative comments on these questions and others will be offered in the hope of facilitating further discussion.

scholarly journals Transient Feelings

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-120
Author(s):  
Donnalyn Xu
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Stream Of Consciousness ◽  
Prose Poem ◽  
Digital Space ◽  
Textual Structure ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Affective Relations

In response to the shifts of communication following the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, this research investigates the disorienting experience of navigating loneliness and intimacy in the digital space. Creative writing is a relatively unexplored but recently emerging field of academic inquiry (Skains 2018, 84). Poetry in particular involves research into the language and textures of the world—it is a critical way of thinking that incorporates not just the signified meaning of words, but also the phonaesthetics, placement, space, and textual structure. This practice-based creative work is presented in the form of a 9-part autoethnographic prose poem that echoes the fragmented and asynchronous nature of digital communication (Bonner 2016, 11). Through stream-of-consciousness vignettes that could be read in any order, I emulate the experience of scrolling through a feed. I explore ideas of limitlessness in the face of apocalyptic endings, where our desire for more is troubled by having too much. This experimental and experiential paper is ultimately an interrogation of the tension between affective relations and isolation, where mediated bodies are troubled by longing, loneliness, and looking.

scholarly journals Creative Writing and Performance in EFL Teacher Training: A Preliminary Case Study

2015 ◽  
Vol IX (1) ◽  
pp. 1-34
Author(s):  
John Crutchfield
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
English Education ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Thick Description ◽  
Efl Teacher ◽  
Theatrical Performance ◽  
Personal Reflections

The following case study was conducted in 2014 in the Department of Didactics of the Institute for English Language and Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin. It was conceived as a preliminary investigation for an ongoing qualitative research project called The Experience of Theatrical Performance in EFL Teacher Education. The purpose of this larger project is to study the effects of the experience of theatrical performance (i.e. live performance before an audience) on EFL teachers-in-training. For this preliminary study, qualitative data were obtained from a group of seven undergraduate English Education students in conjunction with a course focused on the use of creative writing in the EFL classroom. As part of the course work, the students produced a small number of original creative texts in traditional literary genres: a personal essay, two short stories (using 1st and 3rd person point-of-view), a poem and a short play. Each student also kept a Course Journal, in which he or she wrote daily in-class creative writing exercises as well as critical and personal reflections. The course ended with a Public Reading: the students presented their creative work before an audience comprised of peers, faculty, and members of the general public. The following paper considers in particular the students' personal reflections both before and after this Public Reading. What emerges is a coherent emotional and cognitive trajectory, determined in all of its moments by the theatrical event (as future, present, and past experience) of performing original creative work before a live audience. Because the investigation was conducted by a participant in the course (i.e. the teacher himself, a native English speaker born in the United States), the report also includes thick description of the intersubjective and intercultural contexts of the study, as well as ethnographic reflections on its limitations.

scholarly journals INSIDER RESEARCH: REPRESENTING PERIPHERAL VOICES AND MULTIPLE IDENTITIES WHEN WRITING ABOUT PERSONAL TRAUMA

c i n d e r ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leanne Dodd
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Writing Process ◽  
Multiple Identities ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Creative Thesis ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Trauma Survivor ◽  
Personal Trauma ◽  
Research Endeavour

As an ‘insider’ researcher writing about personal trauma, I sought to reconcile my multiple identities in my doctoral thesis: scholar/researcher, creative writing practitioner, and trauma survivor evolving from the process of writing about trauma. Concerns arose about how I could insert these peripheral voices and multiple identities into my creative thesis, while paying attention to the tenets of scholarly rigour and my desire for creativity. This article presents a case study of the design of my thesis, where my research endeavour was to ‘re-story’ my self-narrative through ficto-memoir: a creative writing process whereby my personal experiences were fictionalised, but carried the same emotional affect and benefits as writing about real experiences. This article contends that creativity could still be achieved in a conventional academic thesis structure with a slightly modified format that allows for the insertion of an author’s parallel voices into the research and alignment with the creative work.

Writing Bestsellers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Wilkins ◽  
Lisa Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
The World ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The Relationship

While the term 'bestseller' explicitly relates books to sales, commercially successful books are also products of individual creative work. This Element presents a new perspective on the relationship between art and the market, with particular reference to bestselling writers and books. We examine some existing perspectives on art's relationship to the marketplace to trouble persistent binaries that see the two in opposition; we break down the monolith of the marketplace by thinking of it as made up of a range of invested, non-hostile participants such as publishing personnel and readers; we articulate the material dimensions of creative writing in the industry through the words of bestselling writers themselves; and we examine how the existence of bestselling books and writers in the world of letters bears enormous influence on the industry, and on the practice of other writers.

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