(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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... Craft Criticism” and the Possibility of Theoretical Scholarship in Creative Writing Chapter . Writing, Reading, Thinking, and the Question Concerning Craft Chapter . Terms of an Alliance Chapter . Starting Somewhere Notes ...
... Craft Criticism” and the Possibility of Theoretical Scholarship in Creative Writing Chapter . Writing, Reading, Thinking, and the Question Concerning Craft Chapter . Terms of an Alliance Chapter . Starting Somewhere Notes ...
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... craft criticism” has emerged in the discourses surrounding academic creative writing. Craft criticism, I argue, can and should serve as a bridge between creative writing and composition studies. In order to make such a case, I define ...
... craft criticism” has emerged in the discourses surrounding academic creative writing. Craft criticism, I argue, can and should serve as a bridge between creative writing and composition studies. In order to make such a case, I define ...
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Composition, Creative Writing, and the Future of English Studies Tim Mayers. My wife, Sandra, has long been an attentive reader and an enormously helpful critic of my work. She deserves much of the credit for this book. Finally, my ...
Composition, Creative Writing, and the Future of English Studies Tim Mayers. My wife, Sandra, has long been an attentive reader and an enormously helpful critic of my work. She deserves much of the credit for this book. Finally, my ...
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... creative writers; the Paris Review's widely read interviews with writers are probably the most notable examples, but many other journals continue to publish interviews with creative ... criticism), Timothy Clark's The Theory of Inspiration (a ...
... creative writers; the Paris Review's widely read interviews with writers are probably the most notable examples, but many other journals continue to publish interviews with creative ... criticism), Timothy Clark's The Theory of Inspiration (a ...
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... critic John W. Aldridge paints a bleak picture of 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 ...
... critic John W. Aldridge paints a bleak picture of 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 ...
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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