"In an era of blurred generic boundaries, multimedia storytelling, and open-source culture, creative writing scholars stand poised to consider the role that technology-and the creative writer's playful engagement with technology-has occupied in the evolution of its theory and practice. Composition, Creative Writing Studies and the Digital Humanities is the first book to bring these three fields together to open up new opportunities and directions for creative writing studies. Placing the rise of Creative Writing Studies alongside the rise of the digital humanities in Composition/Rhetoric, Adam Koehler shows that the use of new media and its attendant re-evaluation of fundamental assumptions in the field stands to guide Creative Writing Studies into a new era. Covering current developments in composition and the digital humanities, this book re-examines established assumptions about process, genre, authority/authorship and pedagogical practice in the creative writing classroom."--Bloomsbury Publishing. Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction Aesthetics and “creative composition” Creative writing and composition Creative writing and technology A note on categorical systems Where I’m going, where I’ve been Composition, creative writing studies, and the digital humanities Note Chapter 1: Digital Pasts: On Composition, Creative Writing, and Emergent Technologies Creativity in composition Invention and imagination in composition Critical-creative composition Composition, new media, and the rise of creative writing studies Creative writing and the digital humanities Notes Chapter 2: Defining Digital Creative Writing Studies Creative writing scholarship and “craft criticism” Hypertext and its descendents: Digital processes Genre(s) growing Authors, avatars, and identity: Managing authorship and ownership in a digital age Institutionality Craft and contours: English studies and digital craft criticism Notes Chapter 3: Ideology, Subjectivity, and the Creative Writer in the Digital Age The “Big T” Text and the “little t” text Voice and unoriginality Medial ecologies and subject positions A mediated writer’s subjectivity Electronic ethos Landscape as canvas: Rhythm science Authors, institutions, and ideology Notes Chapter 4: Process, Genre, and Technologizing the Word (Nervous) cultural conditions: Writing and the electromagnetic imaginary Writing as technology Genre, process, and the production of knowledge Chapter 5: Fenceless Neighbors: On Composition, Creative Writing, and Emerging Institutional Practices Methodological Pedagogy Disciplinary identity Fenceless neighbors: Composition, creative writing studies, and the digital humanities Works Cited Index "In an era of blurred generic boundaries, multimedia storytelling, and open-source culture, creative writing scholars stand poised to consider the role that technology-and the creative writer's playful engagement with technology-has occupied in the evolution of its theory and practice. Composition, Creative Writing Studies and the Digital Humanities is the first book to bring these three fields together to open up new opportunities and directions for creative writing studies. Placing the rise of Creative Writing Studies alongside the rise of the digital humanities in Composition/Rhetoric, Adam Koehler shows that the use of new media and its attendant re-evaluation of fundamental assumptions in the field stands to guide Creative Writing Studies into a new era. Covering current developments in composition and the digital humanities, this book re-examines established assumptions about process, genre, authority/authorship and pedagogical practice in the creative writing classroom." -- Back cover
