(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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... contemporary horror films teach composi- tion not because they have any interest in it but because it offers the benefit of a full tuition waiver and a modest stipend while they work toward their Ph.D.'s . The same is sometimes true ...
... contemporary horror films teach composi- tion not because they have any interest in it but because it offers the benefit of a full tuition waiver and a modest stipend while they work toward their Ph.D.'s . The same is sometimes true ...
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... contemporary American poets need to appeal to readers of literary theory and criticism ) , Timothy Clark's The Theory of Inspiration ( a fascinating attempt to explain and demystify exactly what might be happening when writers feel ...
... contemporary American poets need to appeal to readers of literary theory and criticism ) , Timothy Clark's The Theory of Inspiration ( a fascinating attempt to explain and demystify exactly what might be happening when writers feel ...
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... contemporary landscape for fiction writing and blames creative writing programs in large measure for this bleakness , noting that “ the writing programs have not yet devised a way to reproduce or incor- porate into their curricula the ...
... contemporary landscape for fiction writing and blames creative writing programs in large measure for this bleakness , noting that “ the writing programs have not yet devised a way to reproduce or incor- porate into their curricula the ...
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... contemporary literature . All the other goals , like becoming an academic professional , are ancillary to that artistic goal . ” Undergraduate creative writing courses , on the other hand , “ differ from graduate workshops because their ...
... contemporary literature . All the other goals , like becoming an academic professional , are ancillary to that artistic goal . ” Undergraduate creative writing courses , on the other hand , “ differ from graduate workshops because their ...
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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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