(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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... Reading , Thinking , and the Question Concerning Craft Chapter 4. Terms of an Alliance Chapter 5. Starting Somewhere Notes Works Cited Index ix xvii 1 29 65 97 129 169 175 183 Preface I majored in English as an undergraduate because I ...
... Reading , Thinking , and the Question Concerning Craft Chapter 4. Terms of an Alliance Chapter 5. Starting Somewhere Notes Works Cited Index ix xvii 1 29 65 97 129 169 175 183 Preface I majored in English as an undergraduate because I ...
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... reading of student fiction writing and the spoken discourse of creative writing workshops opens new ground for ... readers, depending on their distinctive disciplinary identities and affiliations, may find this book at times moving ...
... reading of student fiction writing and the spoken discourse of creative writing workshops opens new ground for ... readers, depending on their distinctive disciplinary identities and affiliations, may find this book at times moving ...
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... readers , these arguments cannot be neatly separated from each other and therefore are not always neatly “ contained " within particular chapters . Still , I believe it will be helpful to sketch these arguments briefly at the outset . I ...
... readers , these arguments cannot be neatly separated from each other and therefore are not always neatly “ contained " within particular chapters . Still , I believe it will be helpful to sketch these arguments briefly at the outset . I ...
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... reading and writing while establishing and protecting a realm of intellectual interests that often had little to do with such instruction . But the many recent proposals to reform English studies , I believe , serve as a powerful ...
... reading and writing while establishing and protecting a realm of intellectual interests that often had little to do with such instruction . But the many recent proposals to reform English studies , I believe , serve as a powerful ...
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... of you. My parents, Bernard and Paulette Mayers, taught me by example the im- portance and value of learning. It was a joy to grow up in a house full of books. xvii My wife, Sandra, has long been an attentive reader and.
... of you. My parents, Bernard and Paulette Mayers, taught me by example the im- portance and value of learning. It was a joy to grow up in a house full of books. xvii My wife, Sandra, has long been an attentive reader and.
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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