The tenn creati11c fl!rifing seldom gees applied to the prose chat students are required to grind out for their high school essays on Crear Expectations or for cenn papers about the Civil War....

The tenn creati11c fl!rifing seldom gees applied to the prose chat students are required to grind out for their high school essays on Crear Expectations or for cenn papers about the Civil War. Creative 1vriti11g is usually reserved for the poems, plays, and fiction students read and sometimes write outside of class, far from the judgments of teachers a.nd the pressure co get good grades. This way of thinking is not inaccurate. It reflects a cultural commonplace: the humanities supposedly provide a time-out for the f r eedom of imagination, while the other disciplines deaJ with difficult real-world concerns. The problem with this way of thinking is thar it implicitly assumes o·eative w1iting carn1ot be factual or conceptually dense. And it assumes that w1iting about the real world bas to be a boring, empty routine. L1 what ways does "Reading and Wtiting About the New Hu111a11iries" reject the conventional division between the creative and the real world? ln what ways dot:s it challenge the idea that creativity is spontaneous, subjective, and disconnected from realities?