(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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... potential audiences. My arguments move through various discursive territories, and thus many readers, depending on their distinctive disciplinary identities and affiliations, may find this book at times moving from familiar to ...
... potential audiences. My arguments move through various discursive territories, and thus many readers, depending on their distinctive disciplinary identities and affiliations, may find this book at times moving from familiar to ...
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... potential connections between creative writing and composition pedagogies and theories; those broadly concerned with the shape and direction of English studies, especially theoretically and historically oriented compositionists (and ...
... potential connections between creative writing and composition pedagogies and theories; those broadly concerned with the shape and direction of English studies, especially theoretically and historically oriented compositionists (and ...
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... potential disciplinary status) of creative writing, arguing for a critical and reflexive examination of the kinds of research and knowledge-generating activities that take place in the field and ultimately for redesigned graduate-level ...
... potential disciplinary status) of creative writing, arguing for a critical and reflexive examination of the kinds of research and knowledge-generating activities that take place in the field and ultimately for redesigned graduate-level ...
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... potential to transform, perhaps dramatically, the field of academic creative writing, it has yet to exert much influence. Throughout most of its history as an academic enterprise, creative writing has not been very visible to most ...
... potential to transform, perhaps dramatically, the field of academic creative writing, it has yet to exert much influence. Throughout most of its history as an academic enterprise, creative writing has not been very visible to most ...
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... potential field of analysis. What remained remarkably unchanged, though, through much of this development, was the general method—interpretation—applied to the field's objects of study. This allowed many of the institutional structures ...
... potential field of analysis. What remained remarkably unchanged, though, through much of this development, was the general method—interpretation—applied to the field's objects of study. This allowed many of the institutional structures ...
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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