(Re)Writing Craft: Composition, Creative Writing, and the Future of English Studies(Re)Writing Craft focuses on the gap that exists in many English departments between creative writers and compositionists on one hand, and literary scholars on the other, in an effort to radically transform the way English studies are organized and practiced today. In proposing a new form of writing he calls "craft criticism," Mayers, himself a compositionist and creative writer, explores the connections between creative writing and composition studies programs, which currently exist as separate fields within the larger and more amorphous field of English studies. If creative writing and composition studies are brought together in productive dialogue, they can, in his view, succeed in inverting the common hierarchy in English departments that privileges interpretation of literature over the teaching of writing. |
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... English and American literature. The writing I did in my required English classes (and most of the electives) was treated almost exclusively as a vehicle for communicating interpretations of literary works. There was only one notable ...
... English and American literature. The writing I did in my required English classes (and most of the electives) was treated almost exclusively as a vehicle for communicating interpretations of literary works. There was only one notable ...
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... English departments in U.S. colleges and universities, literature dominates the curriculum. Those relatively few schools that offer ex- tensive writing curricula usually do so separately from a literature-intensive “English” curriculum ...
... English departments in U.S. colleges and universities, literature dominates the curriculum. Those relatively few schools that offer ex- tensive writing curricula usually do so separately from a literature-intensive “English” curriculum ...
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... English studies (at least as I read them) ac- count for two parallel battles ... departments in which they were housed. Proponents of creative writing, a ... English studies continually struggling to justify the need for its existence. In ...
... English studies (at least as I read them) ac- count for two parallel battles ... departments in which they were housed. Proponents of creative writing, a ... English studies continually struggling to justify the need for its existence. In ...
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... English departments, which are often among the largest on campus and which often come into contact with virtually every student who matriculates at any given school. Through much of the twentieth century, professionals in English ...
... English departments, which are often among the largest on campus and which often come into contact with virtually every student who matriculates at any given school. Through much of the twentieth century, professionals in English ...
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... literary studies has changed dramatically over the past several decades, particularly as a result of the so-called theory wars and canon wars, the activity of interpretation still reigns supreme in the vast majority of English departments ...
... literary studies has changed dramatically over the past several decades, particularly as a result of the so-called theory wars and canon wars, the activity of interpretation still reigns supreme in the vast majority of English departments ...
Contents
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2 Craft Criticism and the Possibility of Theoretical Scholarship in Creative Writing | 29 |
3 Writing Reading Thinking and the Question Concerning Craft | 65 |
4 Terms of an Alliance | 97 |
5 Starting Somewhere | 129 |
Notes | 169 |
Works Cited | 175 |
Index | 183 |
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