Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Introduction: The Making of a Poetics 1
5. 1. What Poetics for Creative Writing? 11
6. 2. Critical Antecedents, Theoretical Directions 29
7. 3. Obituaries, Contestations, Proclamations: The Theory Question 45
8. 4. Craft, Knowledge, Theory and the Designing of Poetics 64
9. 5. Styling the Subject of Creative Writing 78
10. 6. The Ego in the Mirror 96
11. 7. Between Thought and the Real in Creative Writing and Philosophy 121
12. 8. Inking the In-Between 137
13. 9. On Experiential Knowing as Creative Writing Research Mode 155
14. 10. Dramatic Encounters: Language, Craft, Theory 168
15. 11. Food for Thought: Investigating Aesthetic Care 182
16. 12. Poetics of Auto-Genesis: On Becoming and the Canon 198
17. Afterword: Poetic (A)Topos 215
18. Bibliography 217
19. Index 238