Creativity and Discovery in the University Writing Class - A Teacher's Guide - Alice Chik

Creativity and Discovery in the University Writing Class - A Teacher's Guide - Alice Chik

12. May the Farce Be with You: Reflections on "Extreme Puppet Theater" as a Vehicle toward Something Else

Creativity and Discovery in the University Writing Class - A Teacher's Guide - Alice Chik

Mark Spitzer [+-]
University of Central Arkansas
Mark Spitzer is Associate Professor of Creative Writing in the Department of Film, Theatre, and Creative Writing at the University of Central Arkansas. He is the author of 18 books, ranging from memoirs to novels to literary translations and collections of poetry. He is the editor of the award-winning Toad Suck Review (toadsuckreview.org), a professor of creative writing, an authority on the notorious gar fish (See River Monsters, alligator gar episode), and the world expert on the poetry of Jean Genet. Other recent titles include the poetry collection, Inflammatosis: Polemic Poetry, Incendiary Prose, and Other Extremes of Love and War (Six Gallery Press, 2018); the young adult and children’s literature title, The Crabby Old Gar (Subversive Muse Press, 2018); the novel, Viva Arletty! Our Lady of the Egrets (Six Gallery Press, 2017); the nonfiction work, Beautifully Grotesque Fish of the American West (University of Nebraska Press, 2017); the literary translation The Genet Translations: Poetry and Posthumous Plays (Polemic Press, 2015), and the memoir, After the Octopus (Black Mountain Press, 2014).

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This chapter recounts the author's experience of using puppetry in academia to encourage discovery.

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Spitzer, Mark. 12. May the Farce Be with You: Reflections on "Extreme Puppet Theater" as a Vehicle toward Something Else. Creativity and Discovery in the University Writing Class - A Teacher's Guide. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 233-249 Jul 2015. ISBN 9781781791066. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=27777. Date accessed: 28 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.27777. Jul 2015

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