General introduction
PART ONE Creativities: texts in context, genres in practice
Section introduction
Patience Agbabi, Give me (deep intake of breath) inspiration
Rukmini Bhaya Nair, ‘When the sky falls’: creativity in poetry
Richard Danson Brown, ‘Can’t we ever, my love, speak in the same language?’
Everyday language and creative tension in the poetry of Louis MacNeice
Elena Semino, Metaphor, creativity and the experience of pain across genres
Lynne Cameron, Metaphor in prosaic and poetic creativity
G.D. Jayalakshmi, Upendran and Amrit (Interview), Punning and playing in bilingual conversation
PART TWO Creativity across modes, media and technologies
Section introduction
Mario Petrucci, Chains of transformation. The making of ‘Heavy Water’: a film for
Chernobyl
Janet Maybin, Intimate strangers: creativity at the level of practice, genre and textual poetics in penfriend correspondence
Angela Goddard look im over here
Creativity, materiality and representation in new communication technologies
Kate Pahl, Improvisations and transformations across modes: the case of a multimodal box project
Michelene Wandor, ‘The Music of the Prophets’ – a practitioner’s perspective
Ruth Finnegan, (Title and placing to be confirmed; alternatively in Part Four)
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PART THREE Creative Interpretations: audience responses, reading and rewriting
Section introduction
G.D. Jayalakshmi, Seducing the audience: ‘Arranged Marriage’
Peter Stockwell, Authenticity and creativity in reading
Joan Swann, Creative reading (title and content tbc)
Fiona Sampson, Practical measures: poet as editor
Jane Spiro, Judging poetry
Patience Agbabi, Mature poets steal: the art of dressing old words new
Graeme Harper, Creative Writing: habitat homo sapiens
Rob Pope, Rewriting the critical-creative continuum: adaptation, parody and translation as forms of textual in(ter)vention
PART FOUR Open questions, ongoing debates
Jon Cook, (Title to be confirmed)
Ruth Finnegan, (Title and placing to be confirmed; alternatively in Part Two)
Daniel Allington, The construction of ‘creativity’
Guy Cook, In defence of genius
Responses from Joan Swann and Rob Pope
Rejoinder from Guy Cook
Creative writing, language and literature: responses and comments
Ronald Carter, Epilogue
April 2009
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