IN CITE
New book, In Cite: Epistemologies of Creative Writing. A few of you out there have been anticipating it.
I hope you enjoy it. If not all of it, then at least some. It has its moments,
I can say, since I wrote it myself. The readers have also had good things to
say about it. A grand thanks especially to Patrick Blackburn for a very
thorough review. Not even a a comma was left unturned. And then there's that
compliment, featured also on the back cover. Oh, well, it really can't get any
better. It goes to show: some logicians do get the whole thing and then some.
Here's the editorial text and the man's words:
The epistemic creative writer is not merely an expressive
writer, a writer who writes for creative writing programs at diverse university
colleges. Rather, the epistemic creative writer is the writer who understands
that in order to say something useful you must step out of the space that
engages your ego. Awareness of what really matters comes from the contemplation
of the futility of words. Before the word there is silence. After the word
there is silence. But during the word there is knowledge that can be made
crystal clear. This book is about extracting what writing means to a few
writers who formulate ideas about creative writing without, however, making
claims to instruction. Can creative writing that produces knowledge be taught
without a method? Samuel Beckett, Raymond Federman, Gertrude Stein, Jacques
Lacan, Frank O'Hara, Douglas Hofstadter, Brian Rotman, Herman Melville, Kathy
Acker, Friedrich Nietzsche, David Markson, Andrei Codrescu, and a host of
others, gather here to offer an answer.
This book served as my Dr.Phil. dissertation, successfully defended in January 2014 at Roskilde University. The committee accepted the dissertation as is, and demanded no revisions whatsoever. A rare case... I had a blast at the public defence, even though it took over 4 hours of examination.
EyeCorner Press (March 11, 2013).
EyeCorner Press (March 11, 2013).
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