(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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... focus only on matters of craft—that is, matters of surface-level technique. Fiction writer Madison Smartt Bell claims: “It's not that a student's inner process can't be influenced from without. It's that it shouldn't be. Inner process ...
... focus only on matters of craft—that is, matters of surface-level technique. Fiction writer Madison Smartt Bell claims: “It's not that a student's inner process can't be influenced from without. It's that it shouldn't be. Inner process ...
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... focused on redesigning English studies for the future has become a vibrant strand of disciplinary discourse, and although some practitioners have advocated change since the very inception of English studies, the number and type of ...
... focused on redesigning English studies for the future has become a vibrant strand of disciplinary discourse, and although some practitioners have advocated change since the very inception of English studies, the number and type of ...
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... focus of class discussion in courses where it often has not been so, such as surveys of literature from specific historical eras. The presence and progression of theoretical proposals for change are quite visible in the history of ...
... focus of class discussion in courses where it often has not been so, such as surveys of literature from specific historical eras. The presence and progression of theoretical proposals for change are quite visible in the history of ...
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... focusing centrally on student writing, and the various kinds of responses to student writing, in all English classes. Patricia Bizzell argues that the notion of “contact zones” is an organizing principle under which the differences ...
... focusing centrally on student writing, and the various kinds of responses to student writing, in all English classes. Patricia Bizzell argues that the notion of “contact zones” is an organizing principle under which the differences ...
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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 |
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