Supervisor: Kotopoulos Triantaphyllos

Title: Creative Writing and confinement

Three-member advisory comitee:

1) Kotopoulos Triantaphyllos
2) Triantari Sotiria
3) Andreas Karakitsios

Abstract

Ιn resent years, attempts have been made to assess in a different way, the possibilities of literary reading and writing in a state of confinement(prisons).In this doctoral thesis, will be mentioned, how “teaching” of Creative Writing, in a field where the diversity of people has not been recognized only in cultural differences but also as a part of special social construction(such as prison), can lead us to new paths of teaching, new approaches of literary forms to our confined fellow human beings.

In a social construction in which, according to Foucault, the immoral, the absurd and the awful are displaced, in order to emerge the dominant value categories of society, teaching practices revealed an even more humanitarian dimension

Literature creates “potential worlds” by transforming through unfamiliarity, the ordinary, the conventional of reality. How to create, through teaching and pedagogical methods of Creative Writing, “potential worlds”- where “Me” is formed in acceptable ways, into an environment of exclusion- is a challenge for its pedagogical dynamics.