(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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... poetic and rhetoric, the activities involved in their production and interpretation, their relationship to each other, and their relative place in graduate and undergraduate work. James A. Berlin, Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures ...
... poetic and rhetoric, the activities involved in their production and interpretation, their relationship to each other, and their relative place in graduate and undergraduate work. James A. Berlin, Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures ...
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... poets and fiction writers can publish their work. Yet many outside the discipline might be surprised to discover that creative writing has also developed or co-opted a series of other professional discourses or genres as part of its ...
... poets and fiction writers can publish their work. Yet many outside the discipline might be surprised to discover that creative writing has also developed or co-opted a series of other professional discourses or genres as part of its ...
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... poets need to appeal to readers of literary theory and criticism), Timothy Clark's The Theory of Inspiration (a fascinating attempt to explain and demystify exactly what might be happening when writers feel “inspired”), and Jane ...
... poets need to appeal to readers of literary theory and criticism), Timothy Clark's The Theory of Inspiration (a fascinating attempt to explain and demystify exactly what might be happening when writers feel “inspired”), and Jane ...
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... poet acquaintance” who “explained that she was of the opinion that real writers spend their time writing, and that AWP's Pedagogy Forum wasn't really taken seriously by writers anyway. . . . Creative writers, she insisted, 'don't give ...
... poet acquaintance” who “explained that she was of the opinion that real writers spend their time writing, and that AWP's Pedagogy Forum wasn't really taken seriously by writers anyway. . . . Creative writers, she insisted, 'don't give ...
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... Poets or post-structuralist literary theorists), “How can a realpoet take the deep divination of poetry to be ... poet, is a transhistorical and transcultural creature, a type of person who (though rare) occurs in many different time ...
... Poets or post-structuralist literary theorists), “How can a realpoet take the deep divination of poetry to be ... poet, is a transhistorical and transcultural creature, a type of person who (though rare) occurs in many different time ...
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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