(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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... institutional-conventional wisdom” of creative writing. As such, it exists as a nascent kind of scholarly or professional “work” that is similar to much of the work that goes on in composition studies and suggests previously unexplored ...
... institutional-conventional wisdom” of creative writing. As such, it exists as a nascent kind of scholarly or professional “work” that is similar to much of the work that goes on in composition studies and suggests previously unexplored ...
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... institutional citizens. The innovative nature of Bizzaro's work here cannot be overstated. His project challenges conventional wisdom both in creative writing as it currently exists and in English studies generally; it takes virtually ...
... institutional citizens. The innovative nature of Bizzaro's work here cannot be overstated. His project challenges conventional wisdom both in creative writing as it currently exists and in English studies generally; it takes virtually ...
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... conventional wisdom,” believed by many to be beyond dispute. But it is also “institutional” in the sense that it has become embedded within institutional structures and therefore has helped to form the kind of academic enterprise ...
... conventional wisdom,” believed by many to be beyond dispute. But it is also “institutional” in the sense that it has become embedded within institutional structures and therefore has helped to form the kind of academic enterprise ...
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... institutional-conventional wisdom holds that creativity or writing ability is fundamentally “interior” or “psychological” in nature and that it is thus the province only of special or gifted individuals and is fundamentally unteachable ...
... institutional-conventional wisdom holds that creativity or writing ability is fundamentally “interior” or “psychological” in nature and that it is thus the province only of special or gifted individuals and is fundamentally unteachable ...
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... institutional-conventional wisdom: it is not possible to teach people to be writers (since they either The Shifting Boundaries ofEnglish Studies.
... institutional-conventional wisdom: it is not possible to teach people to be writers (since they either 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 |
Back Cover | 189 |
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