(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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... writing and composition pedagogies and theories; those broadly concerned with the shape and direction of English studies, especially theoretically and historically oriented compositionists (and perhaps even a few literary scholars) who ...
... writing and composition pedagogies and theories; those broadly concerned with the shape and direction of English studies, especially theoretically and historically oriented compositionists (and perhaps even a few literary scholars) who ...
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... Compositionists developed rich and varied theories of composing processes and also explored the relevance to composition of theories from numerous other academic disciplines. Compositionists proved, in other words, that they could “do ...
... Compositionists developed rich and varied theories of composing processes and also explored the relevance to composition of theories from numerous other academic disciplines. Compositionists proved, in other words, that they could “do ...
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... compositionists together should strive to invert the traditional hierarchy of English studies, which privileges interpretation over production. Such an inversion at this particular moment in the history of English studies, I argue ...
... compositionists together should strive to invert the traditional hierarchy of English studies, which privileges interpretation over production. Such an inversion at this particular moment in the history of English studies, I argue ...
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... writing, sometimes in ways that compositionists and creative writers find objectionable. Newcomers and outsiders often feel that composition and creative writing ought to have a great deal in common—as, on an intuitive, “commonsense ...
... writing, sometimes in ways that compositionists and creative writers find objectionable. Newcomers and outsiders often feel that composition and creative writing ought to have a great deal in common—as, on an intuitive, “commonsense ...
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... writing. A number of students attempted to define composition as well, and while these definitions were sensible ... compositionists but also by creative writers—to question, cross, and redraw disciplinary boundaries, almost none has ...
... writing. A number of students attempted to define composition as well, and while these definitions were sensible ... compositionists but also by creative writers—to question, cross, and redraw disciplinary boundaries, almost none has ...
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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