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- Title
Drawing on Spenser's Epic Poetry (The Faerie Queene) for Creative Writing World Creation: O What Endlesse Worke Haue I in Hand.
- Authors
Baker, John R.
- Abstract
Creative writing literature has explored a variety of concepts to facilitate students' writing. One area that has received a considerable amount of attention is the readingwriting relationship. Following the belief that this phenomenon facilitates students' writing (e.g., narrative fiction), creative writing courses offer an array of reading opportunities, but one that is often overlooked is epic poetry. This is unfortunate as epic poetry includes some of our greatest literary works (e.g., the Odyssey, Illiad, Beowulf, The Green Knight), many of which have been readdressed in various genres. Spenser's Faerie Queene (FQ), for instance, offers an abundance of reading-writing opportunities but has been under-addressed in creative writing literature. To illustrate the potential boon of this work, I, via a close reading, illustrate how FQ is a bountiful source for creative writing in the way of fantasy world creation with regard to language, geography, characters, and allegory.
- Subjects
CREATIVE writing education; EPIC poetry; FAERIE Queene, The (Poem : Spenser); ACADEMIC discourse; EMOTIONAL intelligence
- Publication
English Scholarship Beyond Borders, 2023, Vol 9, Issue 1, p136
- ISSN
2410-9096
- Publication type
Article