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1、Today,June 6th,9:30-11:00:Creative Writing(Me)12:00-1:30:Literary Studies:(Davin)1:30-3:00:Composition&Rhetoric(Steve)3:00-4:00:Afternoon Workshop(Jade)In Creative Writing todayWell share and talk about our favorite quotations from Skittish Libations.Well dive into the whole enterprise of Creative W
2、riting with questions and no answers.If you actually think you have answers,I hope to set you straight.,Lets sort of start by just yapping a bit about the whole creative enterprise.What quotation did you select in Skittish Libations,and why?What,for you,is“art”?What is“creative writing”?What is the
3、process one goes through on the way to creating fabulous poetry and fiction?,An escape from reality;asedative or distraction,Formalist,Formalist,Formalist,Creative Writing,A magnification of reality,The improvementof reality(art as a hammer,The invention of reality,A confrontation with reality;facin
4、g reality,Defiance of reality;reality as it ought to be,Note that some types,such as satire,mock or interrogate reality,The honoring of tradition,Formalist,Formalist,Formalist,Art,Expression that is wide-open and free,A pile of crap;a hoax;excuse for not having a REAL job,A commodity,The subversion
5、of tradition,Self-expression;solely for self;exploration of ones unique vision,Something produced solely for others;a means of pleasing an audience,Emotional or psychological therapy,Creative Writing,Process,Product,Expression that is shaped and crafted,A mysterious inborn talent,A learnable skill,S
6、ELF OTHER,Maybe writings a constant NEGOTIATION of binaries,Artist Audience,Past Present,Speaking of Past and Present,here are a couple of competing claims:,Creative Writing(Literature)is the art of language in the present moment.The live,unstable,mysterious evolution that is happening continually a
7、nd right under our noses.Brand new poetry,fiction,creative non-fiction,script-writing,and genres we dont yet know how to name.Creative Writing(Literature)is the art of language as an ancient activity.Something weve been doing since we first opened our mouths to speak,write on cave walls,and sing aro
8、und a fire.Some theorists say that the impulse to create poetry is at the root of the human impulse to communicate,period.,Ok.,So nobody knows how to define it.Or theres no final definition.Then how do we learn it?How does it get taught?Should I,as a teacher,emphasize process or product?Craft or fre
9、e exploration?The work of antiquity or the work of the future?How is it distinguished from any other kind of writing and so whats its place in the schools at any level?In other words,What is“Creative Writing”with a capital C and W?,=the branch of English Studies that involves teaching and learning h
10、ow to write creatively,right?Yeah,but,Isnt all writing“creative”?Why call it Creative Writing?Can it really be taught?Isnt it about talent and a mysterious ability to summon the muse?Whats it doing in a university?How do you evaluate it?How does it relate to Rhetoric and Composition,Literary Studies
11、,Linguistics,Technical Writing?Isnt writing in these fields creative also?Whats more important:the writing of literature or the study of it?,Isnt all language creative,really?Why even have a distinct field called Creative Writing?Cant business reports,department memos,shopping lists,Facebook status
12、updates,even check-writing all be“creative”?,Did you know,In some of its earliest appearances in higher ed,Creative Writing was offered to help students understand literature better.I.e.,it was in the service of literature studies.The idea was that by writing some fiction,poetry,or drama themselves,
13、students would better understand the masterpieces of literature.,But also,a bunch of teachers who were also writers wanted to get together with other writers and blab about their workin a college setting.(Couldnt hang out in the bistros of Paris or Gertrude Steins salon anymore,so had to get togethe
14、r somewhere),Its always been a bit of an outlaw,Not scholarly like other disciplines.The MFA is a studio degree.Very different criteria.Not really“academic.”Considered to be even a“spiritual”discipline.A“soft”subject.Workshop approach is considered by some to be whimpy:writers who want to talk with
15、other writers sit in a circle and read/discuss their stuff,while a teacher/published writer chimes in.,Since the 80s,though,It has been influenced by postmodern theory,composition studies,and English education.The way it is taught is changing here and thereYou can now study“the teaching of Creative
16、Writing”as a subject itself.Or“Creative Writing Studies”which examines:Creative writing pedagogyThe culture of creative writing/creative writing in the culture The history of creative writing in the university.You can get an MA and PhD in“Creative Writing Studies.”,Me?What in the heck do I do as a t
17、eacher of the stuff?When I go into the creative writing classroom,I teach genres.Poetry,fiction.Creative nonfiction.Some script writing.I encourage wide-open,glorious self-expression.Go for it.I encourage self-denial and disciplined attention to the needs of audience.Craft.I encourage demented new w
18、ays of thinking about the world.I encourage thoughtful appreciation of very old traditions.I try to do everything.Thats why Im burning out.Thats why Im insane.Dont tell my boss.,ok,Poetry,PoetryGoing Back to The Very Beginning,Playing with language:Kenneth Koch,The Luminous ObjectSurrealismWorst Hig
19、h School MetaphorsHarmonious Confusion,Maybe it starts with just loving words.,Whats figurative language?,How do you say that someone is drunk?How many animal metaphors do we use everyday?Where did most worn-out metaphors come from,and how do we keep the language alive?Look at Lorrie Moore,Worst Hig
20、h School Metaphors,1.Her face was a perfect oval,like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.2.His thoughts tumbled in his head,making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.3.He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience,like
21、a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.4.She grew on him like she was a colony o
22、f E.Coli,and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.5.She had a deep,throaty,genuine laugh,like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.6.Her vocabulary was as bad as,like,whatever.,7.He was as tall as a six-foot,three-inch tree.8.The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated
23、 because of his wifes infidelity came as a rude shock,like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM machine.9.The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldnt.10.McBride fell 12 stories,hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.11.From
24、the attic came an unearthly howl.The whole scene had an eerie,surreal quality,like when youre on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m.Instead of 7:30.12.Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.,13.The hailstones leaped from the pavement,just like maggots
25、when you fry them in hot grease.14.Long separated by cruel fate,the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains,one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m.Traveling at 55 mph,the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m.At a speed of 35 mph.15.They lived in a typical
26、suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigans teeth.16.John and Mary had never met.They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.17.He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant,and she was the East River.18.Even in his last years,Granddad had a mind like a st
27、eel trap,only one that had been left out so long,it had rusted shut.19.Shots rang out,as shots are want to do.,20.The plan was simple,like my brother-in-law Phil.But unlike Phil,this plan just might work.21.The young fighter had a hungry look,the kind you get from not eating for a while.22.He was as
28、 lame as a duck.Not the metaphorical lame duck,either,but a real duck that was actually lame,maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.23.The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended one slender leg behind her,like a dog at a fire hydrant.24.It was an American tradition,like fathers ch
29、asing kids around with power tools.25.He was deeply in love.When she spoke,he thought he heard bells,as if she were a garbage truck backing up.,Sometimes it helps to take a really unusual perspectivesay,that of an animal.Once a student wrote a piece from the point of view of a deer.It described a hu
30、nters gun as“a branch that barks.”,PoetryFocusing on particular traditions:The private,inward-directed lyric poet.The community bard.The craftsman or maker.The mad or divinely inspired visionary.,Spoken Word Poetry,The Oral Tradition(the Bard),This stuff is really old,Hey,Daddy-o,Homer 800 BCOld Eng
31、lish poetry 400 ADNative American 8000 BC to presentThe Beats 1950sSlam Poetry 1980s to present,The Beats(1950s,60s),Getting poetry out of the classroomPoetry read to jazz accompaniment,Ferlinghetti:http:/www.ndsu.edu/instruct/cinichol/CreativeWriting/323/MiscPoemsFerlinghetti.htmGinsberg:http:/www.
32、ndsu.edu/instruct/cinichol/CreativeWriting/323/MiscpoemsGinsbergHowl.htm,Rap and Hip Hop,Came of age alongside the poetry slam phenom.Hyperbolic,gymnastic,inventiveHeavily end-rhyme based;rhymes often funny,clever,sillyDistinct prosody,The Poetry Slamand Open-Mike Coffee House Reading,Harks back to
33、the BeatsAgain,desire to get poetry out of the classroomEmphasis on anyone can write poetryTends to be politicalTheatrical,sometimes mixed-media,How do slams work?,check these out!,www.nuyorican.org/,AND,What makes a good spoken-word or slam performance?,Listen to Spoken Word selections,plus Beat po
34、ems with jazz accompaniment,Blurring the line between poetry and theater;performances are like one-person,one-act plays.Aggressive,clever,sometimes funny rhyme,not in any strict pattern(triple rhymes,internal rhymes,slant rhymes,repeated words,etc.In video,“Lazarus,Lazie,Lazy”).Projection!Loud broad
35、cast.Number of unstressed syllables dont matter,maybe.Success depends on how cleverly you get the four stresses in(rap).Getting into a groove.Memorizing the material adds interest.Mixing genres:insert singing,use accompanying sound,etc.Ritual presence of performer.,Ok.So.,Describe what you see on th
36、e table.REALLY LOOK.The thing.The thing itself.Make the object,luminous,Are you being dull?Are you being predictable?Are you thinking too much?Try a thesaurus,STOP!,Try Being Surreal,Surrealism,Surrealism,1924:Andre Breton:,The Surrealist Manifesto“I believe in the future resolution of these two sta
37、tes,dream and reality,which are seemingly so contradictory,into a kind of absolute reality,a sur-reality.”,“The idea of surrealism aims quite simply at the total recovery of our psychic force by a means which is nothing other than the dizzying descent into ourselves,the systematic illumination of hi
38、dden places and the progressive darkening of other places,the perpetual excursion into the midst of forbidden territory”(Breton).,Between WWI and WWII,Surrealism:the principles,ideals,or practice of producing fantastic or incongruous imagery or effects in art,literature,film,or theater by means of u
39、nnatural juxtapositions and combinations.An attempt,through these random,irrational juxtapositions and combinations,to make make a new reality or a new whole.,Instead of:I saw the rabbit,as soft as cotton,his eyes bright,munching the grass.you get:I saw the rabbit,ripe as a hammer,his eyes boiled,ba
40、ptizing the grass.(random words from carpentry,religion,cooking)or:I saw the rabbit,as Monday as Van Goghs ear,eyes in search of Harvard,document the grass.(random words from stuff on my desk),Early Surrealists Valued:,random CHANCE and the seizing of accident;“convulsive beauty,”the marvelous,the u
41、ncanny,the disruptive,and the unexpected;strange and unexpected juxtapositions;defamiliarizing the everyday so that it once again appears strange and new;liberation of mind from bourgeois modes of thinking;the oblivion ha-ha silly brain brillo stain,Heres your fire extinguisher,welcome to the glacie
42、r.,The names of Aztec gods were on one page,serotonin uptake inhibitors on the other.,Here,you said:another baby avocado tree.You threw your shoe.I brokethe refrigerator and the fossil fish.I broke my shoulder blade.I tried to make jambalaya.To relax the organism,the cookbook said,pound with a malle
43、t on the head or shell.,Dont think I wasnt shocked whenyou were a traffic signaland I a woodpecker.,I cant make it any clearer than thatand stay drunk.,I love you.This remarkable statementhas appeared on earth to substantiate the clams.,D u e n d e,Lorca,“intelligence is often the enemy of poetry,be
44、cause it limits too much,and it elevates the poet to a sharp-edged throne where he forgets that ants could eat him or that a great arsenic lobster could fall suddenly on his head”“The duende.Where is the duende?Through the empty arch comes a wind,a mental wind blowing relentlessly over the heads of
45、the dead,in search of new landscapes and unknown accents,a wind that smells of babys spittle,crushed grass,and jellyfish veil,announcing the constant baptism of newly created things.”Duende is“the melancholy demon of Descartes:a demon who was small as a green almond and who sickened of circles and l
46、ines and escaped down the canals to listen to the songs of blurry sailors”,The Guitar“Lament for Ignacio Snchez Mejas:#1,2,4Casida of the Lament,p.91,Elvis,you know it when you hear it,Some responses to Skittish Libations by previous students,Deven,Creative Writing is any writing that isnt done for
47、someone else.Creative Writing is for the writer.The same I would say holds true for any kind of art.An artist creates a painting for his/herself,and the folks walking around the gallery are privileged to see it.A musician creates an album about something personal in his life and the listeners are si
48、mply“along for the ride”.,Yes!Absolutely!Except,Is the audience really that irrelevant?Is this the kind of art you/we typically spend our money on?CDs?Big budget films?,NOT!,Erica,Creative writing is without restrictions,or not many of them.Individuals are free to express themselves and be original.
49、Too many rules and restrictions suppress creativity since individuals are so limited.Creative writing can be described as freedom of writing where emotions are not concealed and the creator is present within each piece of work.,Yep,completely true!,And,again,how come this isnt the art that most of u
50、s actively support?,except,um,what about form?Craft?,Brian,Creative writing is one of the most powerful ways to expel and express feelings,thoughts,and ideas.Writing and all art is meant to affect and influence the minds and emotions of others.The needs of the audience are important and writer shoul
