Author Is Not Dead, Merely Somewhere Else

MICHELENE WANDOR is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at London Metropolitan University, UK, and is a well-known playwright, poet, broadcaster and public intellectual. Her critical publications include Postwar British Drama (Routledge) and she has recently contributed to the English Subject Centre's Creative Writing Good Practice Guidelines.

• Introduction: Creative Writing: A success storyFirst Histories: Creative writing as cultural and educational interventionAutodidacticism and the Politics of LiteracyWalking with Swinburne: English at OxbridgeWatching the Elephants; Creative writing in AmericaFrom Belle-lettres to Literary CriticismSecular Intellectuals after World War IITextual Politics in English Studies after World War IICreative Writing Professionalised: Summary the Story so FarPlay and Pegagogy: Creativity and Creative WritingCreative Writing: A Literature of its OwnHousehold Tips and Recipe BooksThe Workshop and the Emperor's ClothesComparative Approaches: Art School and ConservatoireLiterary Criticism: Value-Judgements and Creative WritingComposition and Creative Writing: US CritiquesReconceiving Creative Writing: the Author is Not Dead, Merely in Some Other TextFrom Criticism to Theory and OnReconceiving Creative Writing: The Materiality of Imaginative WritingLiteracy, Writing and TextualityFrom Elephants to Kangaroos: Prose FictionWriting DramaPoetry and FormThe Core Genres: PedagogyImaginative Writing: Summary and the FutureEpilogue.

'Pursues a much-needed argument about Creative Writing, the nature of the discipline, its relationship to Literary Studies and the workshop format in which it is conventionally taught. On all these subjects Wandor has important (and controversial) things to say.' - Professor Ben Knights, Director, English Subject Centre 'The book will be the definitive text about the history of Creative Writing teaching and its development in the UK for some time to come.' English Subject Centre Newsletter. 'A thorough and detailed history of the multiple ways in which creative writing developed as a university discipline.' College English