Book Review

摘要

Finally someone has written the book I've been wanting my students to read; and written seriously and passionately on something so dear to my own heart the ethical dimensions of creative writing and its representations. Writing and Responsibility addresses a question that is often relatively neglected in the teaching of creative writing, and that is: 'how should we speak?' Vital though this question is to anyone making work that has a representative dimension, or teaching others to make it, or evaluating creative products, it is easily overlooked in the publishing world, in the face of the imperatives of costs and returns, and in the lecture room too, given the overwhelming amount of material that has to be covered in the short space of a subject or course.