(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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... Question Concerning Craft Chapter . Terms of an Alliance Chapter . Starting Somewhere Notes Works Cited Index Preface I majored in English as an undergraduate because I Contents.
... Question Concerning Craft Chapter . Terms of an Alliance Chapter . Starting Somewhere Notes Works Cited Index Preface I majored in English as an undergraduate because I Contents.
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... questions and modes of inquiry. In many cases also, newcomers to an ac- ademic discipline need to learn the history of their chosen discipline—the trajectory the discipline's inquiry has followed; the theories that have been developed ...
... questions and modes of inquiry. In many cases also, newcomers to an ac- ademic discipline need to learn the history of their chosen discipline—the trajectory the discipline's inquiry has followed; the theories that have been developed ...
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... questions about whether or how well the principles of rhetoric as they apply to speaking could be effectively ... question, cross, and redraw disciplinary boundaries, almost none has adequately ac- counted for the sheer dominance of ...
... questions about whether or how well the principles of rhetoric as they apply to speaking could be effectively ... question, cross, and redraw disciplinary boundaries, almost none has adequately ac- counted for the sheer dominance of ...
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... question it, and many compositionists and creative writers (consciously or unconsciously) understand their own fields as mere branches of literary study. Anyone who doubts the proposition that literary study is the dominant ...
... question it, and many compositionists and creative writers (consciously or unconsciously) understand their own fields as mere branches of literary study. Anyone who doubts the proposition that literary study is the dominant ...
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... question their founding assumptions about what they do and why they do it. Immediately prior to Bizzaro's article in this issue of College English is “Who Killed Annabel Lee? Writing about Literature in the Composition Classroom,” in ...
... question their founding assumptions about what they do and why they do it. Immediately prior to Bizzaro's article in this issue of College English is “Who Killed Annabel Lee? Writing about Literature in the Composition Classroom,” in ...
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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