(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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... graduate school, where academia's culture of specialization becomes more apparent and where those in English studies seem compelled to choose both an area and a professional identity with which to ally themselves. I usually tell my ...
... graduate school, where academia's culture of specialization becomes more apparent and where those in English studies seem compelled to choose both an area and a professional identity with which to ally themselves. I usually tell my ...
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... graduate students and new assistant professors, who are struggling with issues of disciplinary identity formation and wondering whether they must abandon certain interests in order to pursue others. Certainly anyone embarking on a ...
... graduate students and new assistant professors, who are struggling with issues of disciplinary identity formation and wondering whether they must abandon certain interests in order to pursue others. Certainly anyone embarking on a ...
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... graduate and undergraduate work. James A. Berlin, Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures: Refiguring College English Studies A academic discipline must learn that discipline's boundaries ...
... graduate and undergraduate work. James A. Berlin, Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures: Refiguring College English Studies A academic discipline must learn that discipline's boundaries ...
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... graduate seminar in “rhetoric and composition.” During the first class meeting, before distributing the syllabus, I asked students to meet in small groups to formulate definitions of what they would be studying for the semester. Or, to ...
... graduate seminar in “rhetoric and composition.” During the first class meeting, before distributing the syllabus, I asked students to meet in small groups to formulate definitions of what they would be studying for the semester. Or, to ...
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... graduate students; they had all been through complete undergraduate curricula in English; they were all bright, skilled, capable people who were nonetheless unaware of the very existence of the subject they were about to study. How many ...
... graduate students; they had all been through complete undergraduate curricula in English; they were all bright, skilled, capable people who were nonetheless unaware of the very existence of the subject they were about to study. How many ...
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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