Minding the Gap : Writing across Thresholds and Fault Lines.

"Passengers on the British railway and underground must 'mind the gap'because it's dangerous not to. In a state of embarking or disembarking, passengers must stay aware of the small but significant space separating the stationary from the moving. The contemporary practices of wri...

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Main Author: Conroy, Thom
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introductory Note: Minding the Gap between Was and Will Be / Thom Conroy and Gail Pittaway
  • 1. Masturbating with Prostitutes: Research and the Realist Novel / Shady Cosgrove
  • 2. Thresholds of Innovation: Conceptualising Imaginative Writing and Fiction Biography / James Vicars
  • 3. Transgressive Consumption: Reading between the Lines of the Alcohol-based Memoir / Donna Lee Brien
  • 4. History, Historical Fiction and 'Phenomenological Longing' / Thom Conroy
  • 5. Writing between Two Shores: Migration and the Personal Essay / Diane Comer
  • 6. Voyaging the Gap though Scandinavian Sagas of Migration to New Zealand / Gail Pittaway
  • 7. Lost in Translation: Using Fictional Language as a Form of Narrative / Denise Beckton
  • 8. Fault-lines: Creativity and the Lure of Language in The Carpathians / Dominique Hecq
  • 9. Writing across Platforms: Adapting Classics through Social Media / Jessica Seymour
  • 10. Playing with Gaps: Science and the Creative Writer / Lisa Smithies
  • 11. The Creative Writing Doctorate as Survival Story: Minding the Gap between Success and Failure / Jeri Kroll
  • 12. Ovid's Artists and Mythic Failure / Jen Webb.