(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. Preface. I majored in English as an undergraduate because I wanted to become a better writer. I wanted, eventually, to write poetry and fiction well enough to ...
Composition, Creative Writing, and the Future of English Studies Tim Mayers. Preface. I majored in English as an undergraduate because I wanted to become a better writer. I wanted, eventually, to write poetry and fiction well enough to ...
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... writers of fiction, poetry, and drama often could not earn enough money through writing to support themselves and therefore needed jobs.3 College and university teaching, though not always palatable to such writers, nonetheless seemed ...
... writers of fiction, poetry, and drama often could not earn enough money through writing to support themselves and therefore needed jobs.3 College and university teaching, though not always palatable to such writers, nonetheless seemed ...
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... writing. Certainly that term would be appropriate too, but “institutionalconventional wisdom” should serve as a ... fiction or poetry is an essential (indeed, at times the only) thing that qualifies one to teach cre- ative writing ...
... writing. Certainly that term would be appropriate too, but “institutionalconventional wisdom” should serve as a ... fiction or poetry is an essential (indeed, at times the only) thing that qualifies one to teach cre- ative writing ...
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... poetry writing can be taught. “Still,” she writes, “painters, sculptors, and musicians require a lively acquaintance ... Fiction writer and critic John W. Aldridge paints a bleak picture of the contemporary landscape for fiction writing ...
... poetry writing can be taught. “Still,” she writes, “painters, sculptors, and musicians require a lively acquaintance ... Fiction writer and critic John W. Aldridge paints a bleak picture of the contemporary landscape for fiction writing ...
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... literature”; more conservative scholars and teachers ar- gued that there was not, since the United States did not yet have a long and distinguished enough tradition, and that most of the works of poetry and fiction produced in America ...
... literature”; more conservative scholars and teachers ar- gued that there was not, since the United States did not yet have a long and distinguished enough tradition, and that most of the works of poetry and fiction produced in America ...
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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