Material culture and creative writing pedagogy: a case for ‘garbage land’ (in real time and space).
In a presumably ‘post-material’ digital age, the turn to materialism has been unmistakeably pronounced in recent years. Renewed critical attention to ‘thing theory’ and material culture also points to fertile ground for writers and teachers of writing. This paper offers an exploration of how writing...
| Publicado en: | New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice & Theory of Creative Writing Vol. 13; no. 2; pp. 194 - 204 |
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