What Distinguishes Scholarship from Art?

The paper concerns Michael Biggs and Daniel Büchler's 2010 claim that the creative arts doctorate is a contradictory amalgam of two discursive modes, one aimed at translating a research experience into a ‘single, unified answer’ to a problem, the other at eliciting a plurality of responses in divers...

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Publicado en:New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice & Theory of Creative Writing Vol. 11; no. 3; pp. 400 - 417
Autor principal: Magee, Paul
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd 2014
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