Leahy: Power and Identity

*Power and Identity in the Creative Writing Classroom: The Authority Project.* Ed. Anna Leahy. Clevendon: Multilingual Matters, LTD, 2005. Print.

Royster, Brent. "Inspiration, Creativity, and Crisis: The Romantic Myth of the Writer Meets the Contemporary Classroom."

And Royster has good leads on creativity studies. And a solid summary of Csikszentmihalyi, applied to CW:

What, then, is at stake if a dynamic model is never implemented in the creative writing classroom? If creative writing workshops are growing in popularity, why is a revised notion of creativity and a restructuring of the workshop necessary? Simply put, a product-centered stifles growth. Such a system places too much emphasis upon particular, validated modes of writing, while devaluing other valid, though unfashionable, styles and voices. Equally important is an awareness of those students whose abilities are driven by an intense need to know or, rather, to explore...Many students delight in tinkering with language or are fascinated by the writerly mystique, some value current trends in writing and theory, and still others wish to explore writing as an extension of political aims. In other words, if ew place too much emphasis upon individual poems or stories submitted to workshop, we may neglect to consider the real reasons students enroll in workshops and the variety of benefits they might gain. (35)

LEADS
for a conception of the process-oriented workshop:
Don Bogen (1984) "Beyond the Workshop: Suggestions for a process oriented creative writing course." Journal of Advanced Composition V, 149-61.

Brophy, K. (1998) *Creativity: Psychoanalysis, Surrealism, and Creative Writing.* Victoria, Australia: Melbourne University Press.

Study of artists on inspiration:
Marsh, Diane and Judith Vollmer (1991) The polyphonic creative process: Experiences of artists and writers. *Journal of Creative Behavior*. 25, 280-8.

Minot, S. (1976). Creative writing: Start with the student's motive. CCC 27, 392-4.

This guy comes up again with a rather sophisticated idea of creativity:
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly (1999) "Implications of a systems perspective for the study of Creativity" In R.J. Sternberg (ed) *Handbook of Creativity*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Lefevre, K.B. (1987) Invention as a social act. *Invention as a social act* (pp. 33-47) CArbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.

Clark, Timothy. (1997) *The Theory of Inspiration: Composition as a Crisis of Subjectivity in Romantic and Post-Romantic Writing.* Manchester University Press.

Taylor, B. (1995) *Into the Open: Reflections on Genius and Modernity. New York: New York University Press.

Weisberg, R.W. (1986) *Creativity: Genius and other Myths.* New York: W.H. Freeman.