Contemporary Literary Advice in France. Adopting, Adapting and Transforming American Creative Writing Handbooks KU Leuven
American creative writing handbooks offer step-by-step programs on how to become a writer and how to write a good book. They provide definitions, formulas and techniques that appear to have universal legitimacy and that have proven very successful all the way into the twenty-first century. At the same time, however, they offer little historical perspective: they fail to situate their poetics within historical contexts and national literary ...