Writing: Self and Reflexivity

by Celia Hunt, Fiona Sampson

This guide is ideal for students of creative writing who wish to explore the writing process and its relationship to self in order to develop as writers. Each chapter links a range of theoretical approaches to one practical aspect of writing, using illustrations from fiction, poetry and literary non-fiction, and suggesting practical exercises for pursuing the topic further. The book will enable students to develop literary, critical and psychodynamic understandings of the creative process and to explore a range of key topics.

Genres: Nonfiction

224 pages, Hardcover

First published December 17, 2005

Reviews

[Carrie Mitchell · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a book I'll keep returning to, I think. I've never studied psychology, so this was a very handy resource for assignments I had to do. But I think there's a lot more I can get from it, in terms of my own writing, how I think about myself on the page, and how I can broaden my ideas about how to enable readers to be active and entertained. It now lives on the "very useful" shelf :)