(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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... disciplinary structures. This book, then, should be of interest to several potential audiences. My arguments move through various discursive territories, and thus many readers, depending on their distinctive disciplinary identities and ...
... disciplinary structures. This book, then, should be of interest to several potential audiences. My arguments move through various discursive territories, and thus many readers, depending on their distinctive disciplinary identities and ...
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... disciplinary identity formation and wondering whether they must abandon certain interests in order to pursue others. Certainly anyone embarking on a career in English studies, and anyone not nearing the end of such a career, will have ...
... disciplinary identity formation and wondering whether they must abandon certain interests in order to pursue others. Certainly anyone embarking on a career in English studies, and anyone not nearing the end of such a career, will have ...
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... disciplinary area in which writing (understood as the production of printed and electronic textual discourse) is of primary concern. . Even the most carefully considered and well-designed plans for refiguring English studies ...
... disciplinary area in which writing (understood as the production of printed and electronic textual discourse) is of primary concern. . Even the most carefully considered and well-designed plans for refiguring English studies ...
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... disciplinary boundaries, almost none has adequately ac- counted for the sheer dominance of literary studies over both composition and creative writing in most English departments. This is not intended primarily to criticize those who ...
... disciplinary boundaries, almost none has adequately ac- counted for the sheer dominance of literary studies over both composition and creative writing in most English departments. This is not intended primarily to criticize those who ...
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... has demonstrated incredible staying power. Of course, the disciplinary centrality of literary study has not prevented signs of discord from emerging. Much of the discourse surrounding The Shifting Boundaries ofEnglish Studies.
... has demonstrated incredible staying power. Of course, the disciplinary centrality of literary study has not prevented signs of discord from emerging. Much of the discourse surrounding The Shifting Boundaries ofEnglish Studies.
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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