Creativity in Language and Literature

JOAN SWANN Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for Language and Communication at The Open University. She has edited numerous books, including A Dictionary of Sociolinguistics with EUP in 2004 and The Art of English; everyday creativity with Palgrave Macmillan in 2006.ROB POPE Professor of English and UK National Teaching Fellow at Oxford Brookes University. He is the author of Creativity: Theory, History, Practice and The English Studies Book: Language, Literature and Culture. RONALD CARTER Professor of Modern English Language in the School of English studies at the University of Nottingham. He is Director of the Humanities Research Centre and the author of many acclaimed works in the field, including Language and Creativity: The Art of Common Talk, Introducing the Grammar of Talk and The Cambridge Grammar of English: A Comprehensive Guide to Spoken and Written Grammar.

'Creativity in Language is a provocative and valuable book.Its breadth of topics, variety of approaches, and self-consciously creative and dialogic nature are especially appropriate and creative ways of approaching the subject of creativity. The range of levels of difficulty, and the concentration on creativity in both everyday contexts and literary ones and in a wide range of genres, give potential teachers the opportunity to make assignments based on the needs and levels of preparation of their own students.The scope, variety, and original content of this book make it a unique contribution to the field.' - Professor David L. Hoover, New York University, USA

• PrologueGeneral IntroductionPART I: CREATIVITIES:TEXTSIN CONTEXT, GENRES IN PRACTICEEditors' Introduction to Part IGive Me (Deep Intake of Breath) Inspiration; P.Agbabi'Can't We Ever, My Love, Speak in the Same Language?': Everyday Language and CreativeTension in the Poetry of Louis MacNeice;R.D.BrownBilingual Verbal Art of Fama: Linguistic Hybridity and Creativity of a Hong Kong Hip Hop Group; A.LinMetaphor in Prosaic and Poetic Creativity; L.CameronMetaphor, Creativity and the Experience of PainAcross Genres;E.SeminoWord Play across Languages and Cultures: Interview between G.D.Jayalakshmi, S.Upendran & R.AmritavalliPART II:CREATIVITYACROSS MODES, MEDIAAND TECHNOLOGIESEditors' Introduction to Part IIChains of Transformation: The Making of Heavy Water, a Film for Chernobyl; M.PetrucciIntimate Strangers:Dialogue and Creativityin Penfriend Correspondence; J.MaybinCreativity, Materiality and Representation in New Communication Technologies; A.GoddardImprovisations and Transformations Across Modes: The Case of a Classroom Multimodal Box Project; K.PahlHybridity in the Mind and on the Page: Genre, Words, Music and Narrative; M.WandorMature Poet Steals:Sonnet as Problem PageNew; P.AgbabiStories in Performance; B.HaggartyPART III: CREATIVE INTERPRETATIONS: AUDIENCE RESPONSES,READINGAND RE-WRITINGEditors' Introduction to Part IIIThe First Three Minutes: Seducing the Audience in 'Arranged Marriage'; G.D.JayalakshmiAuthenticity and Creativity in Reading Lamentation; P.StockwellHow Reading Groups Talk about Books: A Study of Literary Reception; J.SwannReader Response and the Formulation of Literary Judgement; J.SpiroPractical Measures: Poet as Editor; F.SampsonRe-Writingthe Critical-Creative Continuum: '10x...'; R.PopeReading a Hindi Poem: Lost in Translation?; R.B.NairAn A-Z of Textual Re-Creation; R.PopePART IV: OPEN QUESTIONS, ONGOING DEBATESEditors' Introduction to Part IVTheProduction of 'Creativity'; D.AllingtonIn Defence of Genius; G.CookCreative Writing: Habitat Homo Sapiens; G.HarperThree Reflections on Creativity and Writing; J.CookCreativity Looks at Language; R.FinneganEpilogue Creativity: Postscripts and Prospects; R.Carter.