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Tuesday, February 13, 2007
UD, Controversialist Thoughtful article in GW's Daily Colonial newspaper about the university's culture of creative writing, to which a recent essay of UD's, writes the reporter, has added a dab of color: Soltan published a controversial essay in Le Culte du Moi last semester entitled “Zero Creative Writing Growth,” which was written in response to honors program English students who chose to take creative writing courses over literature courses. In the piece, Soltan asserts that “Nothing strangles serious writing faster than...unearned praise, self-absorption, and shallow learning. To which I’ll add another destructive element: lack of worldly experience.” |