Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- SECTION ONE Can it Really be Taught? Influential Essays Revisited by Their Authors -- Introduction-Lore Past, Present, and Future: The Tenth Anniversary of Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught? -- 1 (Re)Figuring the Future: Lore, Creative Writing Studies, and Institutional Histories -- Thrown into history -- The past becomes present -- Lore, with and without history -- (Re)placing lore -- Our history shapes our present-and our future -- References -- 2 Against Reading, 2: Or, Writing Starts Here Reconsidered -- Notes -- References -- 3 Revisiting Charming Tyrants and Faceless Facilitators: The Lore of Teaching Identities in Creative Writing -- Notes -- References -- 4 "It's such a good feeling": Self-Esteem, the Growth Mindset, and Creative Writing -- Both sides of the desk -- The growth mindset -- Larger responsibilities -- Notes -- References -- 5 Finding Truth in the Gaps: A Hybrid Text -- Notes -- References -- 6 Box Office Poison:The Influence of Writers in Films on Writers (in Graduate Programs) -- Writing as film and cultural figuration -- Choosing our poison -- Life inside and outside the frame -- Writers in graduate programs -- Notes -- References -- SECTION TWO The Future of Creative Writing Lore: New Voices, New Challenges -- 7 The Traces of Certain Collisions: Contemporary Writing and Old Tropes -- Introduction -- Lore vs logic? -- Between lore and logic -- The trace -- A conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- 8 Lore 2.0: Creative Writing as History -- Why history? -- Historiographical methods in creative writing studies -- Recovering and remixing historical relics -- Self-reflexivity and pedagogical metanarratives -- Lore 2.0 -- Notes -- References 9 "We don't need no creativewriting": Black Cultural Capital, Social (In)Justice, and the Devaluing of Creativity in Higher Education -- Notes -- References -- 10 Genre Fiction, and Games, and Fanfiction! Oh My!: Competing Realities in Creative Writing Classrooms -- Conceits of the fi ction writing workshop -- A semiotic what? Why the writing workshop works, except when it doesn't -- High tea with the barbarians at the gate: Common ground in creative writing classrooms -- When you play the game of thrones . . . everyone wins! Experiments in fanfiction and games in creative writing -- Notes -- References -- 11 Disability Culture and Creative Writing Pedagogies: When having Fun Together is Radical Practice -- Toward fun -- Case study: Embodiment and the world -- Student perspectives: What changes -- Deepening space: Creating sense libraries -- Slowing down -- Conclusion: Finding creative community -- Notes -- References -- 12 Polemics Against Polemics: Reconsidering Didacticism in Creative Writing -- Historicizing anti- didacticism in creative writing craft texts -- The destabilizing capacities of literature -- Creating dangerously: Teaching political literature in the creative writing classroom -- Notes -- References -- 13 "It's my story and I'll revise if I want to": Rethinking Authorship Through Collaborative Workshop Practices -- The lore of authorship -- Revision revisited -- Toward a collaborative workshop -- Collaboration in genre -- Notes -- References -- 14 Toward a Digital Historiography of Creative Writing Programs in Our Millennium -- Notes -- References -- 15 Investigating Creative Writing: Challenging Obstacles to Empirical Research -- Introduction -- Researching learning vs researching creative writing -- Theoretical: Creative writing, variation theory, and phenomenography -- Empirical: Student learning and creative writing Practical: Learning, creative writing, and pedagogy -- Conclusions: Promoting learning in creative writing -- Notes -- References -- 16 Creative Writing with Godzilla: Welcoming the Monster to your Creative Writing Classroom -- Childhood and Monsters Inc. -- Adversarial lore -- The monster not the monster movie -- Teaching creative writing with Godzilla -- Notes -- References -- 17 Myths, Mirrors, and Metaphors: The Education of the Creative Writing Teacher -- The creative writing pedagogy course: A review of the literature -- Pedagogic identity in creative writing pedagogy classrooms -- Five pedagogic identities -- Pedagogic identity profi les -- Creative writing pedagogy course comparisons -- Findings and implications -- Bibliography -- INDEX
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