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Cubicles, Joshua M. Lobb
Cubicles, Joshua M. Lobb
Joshua Lobb
Research Background: The work is an original short prose piece. It uses as its starting point the hypothesis that narratives surrounding gay male sexual encounters tend towards visual details, where as heterosexual narratives often depend on verbal exchanges. The research questions for the project are: what are the narrative and formal implications of writing about heterosexual and homosexual ‘courtship’? Which narrative form is the more limiting for characters’ agency? Research Contribution: The work is situated in the methodology of research-led practice. It is a practical application of research, combining analysis of dialogue in realism with the writing on the ideological …
'They Don’T Flinch’: Creative Writing/Critical Theory, Pedagogy/Students, Joshua M. Lobb
'They Don’T Flinch’: Creative Writing/Critical Theory, Pedagogy/Students, Joshua M. Lobb
Joshua Lobb
In Creative Writing and the New Humanities, Paul Dawson declared that “Creative Writing needs to answer the critique of authorship and of the category of literature offered by Theory” and that central to discussion is the question “how do writing programmes negotiate the insights of contemporary theory, and the critique of literature which these offer?” (2005, 161). In the late 1990s, the rhetoric of Creative Writing academics certainly reflected this challenge. Jen Webb proposed that “one of the skills writing students need is an understanding of the politics of identity and representation” (2000); Kevin Brophy agreed, declaring that Creative Writing …