Towards a Poetics of Creative Writing

Dominique Hecq is Associate Professor in Writing at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia. Dominique is also Editor of Bukker Tillibul: The Online Journal of Practice-Led Research.

Without Contraries is no progression, says William Blake. And Dominique Hecq agrees, demonstrating how she sets theory and creative practice into active, often disruptive but always productive relation. Hecq's meditations are at once personal and compendious - through their ultimately deeply pragmatic inquiries and insights, many readers will find, will begin to feel, a way forward, into more significant and thoughtful creative engagements.;Michael Theune, Illinois Wesleyan University, USA; How might we conceive of a poetics of creative writing? This study explores the possibilities of such a poetics with wide-ranging rigor, mobilising selected critical theory, philosophy, literature and the author's extensive knowledge of psychoanalysis to link the epistemologically-neglected subjective processes of creativity in the practice and research of creative writing. An impressive intervention, extending contemporary debates about creative writing research.;Marcelle Freiman, Macquarie University, Australia

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1 What Poetics for Creative Writing?2 Critical Antecedents, Theoretical Directions3 Obituaries, Contestations, Proclamations: The Theory Question4 Craft, Knowledge, Theory, and the Designing of Poetics5 Styling the Subject of Creative Writing6 The Ego in the Mirror7 Between Thought and the Real in Creative Writing and Philosophy8 Inking the In-between9 On Experiential Knowing as Creative Writing Research Mode10 Dramatic Encounters: Language, Craft, Theory11 Food for Thought: Investigating Aesthetic Care12 Poetics of Autogenesis: On Becoming and the CanonAfterword: Poetic (a)Topos