(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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Composition, Creative Writing, and the Future of English Studies Tim Mayers ... literature. The writing I did in my required English classes (and most of the ... literary magazine, where it was later published. I also took a course in ...
Composition, Creative Writing, and the Future of English Studies Tim Mayers ... literature. The writing I did in my required English classes (and most of the ... literary magazine, where it was later published. I also took a course in ...
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... studies seem compelled to choose both an area and a professional identity ... literary study. What had struck me, when I was an undergraduate, as a ... literary scholars exhibited toward creative writing, and later by the antiintellectual ...
... studies seem compelled to choose both an area and a professional identity ... literary study. What had struck me, when I was an undergraduate, as a ... literary scholars exhibited toward creative writing, and later by the antiintellectual ...
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... literary theory ( ). Some literary and cultural theorists, like Donald Morton and Mas'ud Zavarzadeh, dismissed ... studies ( ). Eventually—dissatisfied with some aspects of the available academic identity of “creative writer” but ...
... literary theory ( ). Some literary and cultural theorists, like Donald Morton and Mas'ud Zavarzadeh, dismissed ... studies ( ). Eventually—dissatisfied with some aspects of the available academic identity of “creative writer” but ...
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... literary study, beginning early in the twentieth century, fought hard to establish literature—understood as a collection or “canon” of “great” texts—as the legitimate content of English studies: content about which professionals could ...
... literary study, beginning early in the twentieth century, fought hard to establish literature—understood as a collection or “canon” of “great” texts—as the legitimate content of English studies: content about which professionals could ...
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... literary study is the intellectual center of English studies. Even though the landscape of literary studies has changed dramatically over the past several decades, particularly as a result of the so-called theory wars and canon wars ...
... literary study is the intellectual center of English studies. Even though the landscape of literary studies has changed dramatically over the past several decades, particularly as a result of the so-called theory wars and canon wars ...
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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