(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 studies / Tim Mayers. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8229-4256-9 (alk. paper) 1. English languageiRhetoriciStudy and teaching. 2. Report writingistudy and teaching (Higher) 3. English ...
... English studies / Tim Mayers. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8229-4256-9 (alk. paper) 1. English languageiRhetoriciStudy and teaching. 2. Report writingistudy and teaching (Higher) 3. English ...
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Composition, Creative Writing, and the Future of English Studies Tim Mayers. Contents. Preface ix Acknowledgments xvii Chapter . Composition, Creative Writing, and the Shifting Boundaries of English Studies Chapter .“Craft ...
Composition, Creative Writing, and the Future of English Studies Tim Mayers. Contents. Preface ix Acknowledgments xvii Chapter . Composition, Creative Writing, and the Shifting Boundaries of English Studies Chapter .“Craft ...
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Composition, Creative Writing, and the Future of English Studies Tim Mayers. Preface. I majored in English as an undergraduate because I wanted to become a better writer. I wanted, eventually, to write poetry and fiction well enough to ...
Composition, Creative Writing, and the Future of English Studies Tim Mayers. Preface. I majored in English as an undergraduate because I wanted to become a better writer. I wanted, eventually, to write poetry and fiction well enough to ...
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... English studies seem compelled to choose both an area and a professional identity with which to ally themselves. I usually tell my students these days that more writing courses are being proposed as future offerings, but many will ...
... English studies seem compelled to choose both an area and a professional identity with which to ally themselves. I usually tell my students these days that more writing courses are being proposed as future offerings, but many will ...
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... English studies ( ). Eventually—dissatisfied with some aspects of the available academic identity of “creative writer” but unwilling to cast it aside completely, and not wanting to assume the identity of a literary scholar or teacher—I ...
... English studies ( ). Eventually—dissatisfied with some aspects of the available academic identity of “creative writer” but unwilling to cast it aside completely, and not wanting to assume the identity of a literary scholar or teacher—I ...
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 |
Back Cover | 189 |
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