(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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... relationships between composition and cre- ative writing in the realms of theory, pedagogy, and institutional/disciplinary structures. This book, then, should be of interest to several potential audiences. My arguments move through ...
... relationships between composition and cre- ative writing in the realms of theory, pedagogy, and institutional/disciplinary structures. This book, then, should be of interest to several potential audiences. My arguments move through ...
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... production and interpretation, their relationship to each other, and their relative place in graduate and undergraduate work. James A. Berlin, Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures: Refiguring College English Studies A ...
... production and interpretation, their relationship to each other, and their relative place in graduate and undergraduate work. James A. Berlin, Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures: Refiguring College English Studies A ...
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... relationship between literary study and composition.) Richardson summarizes the debate well but argues that scholars and teachers really need to “move beyond” it, primarily because “graduate English programs aren't changing quickly ...
... relationship between literary study and composition.) Richardson summarizes the debate well but argues that scholars and teachers really need to “move beyond” it, primarily because “graduate English programs aren't changing quickly ...
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... relationship to teaching is precisely what makes composition different from other academic disciplines and that this relationship ought to be preserved. No matter what one's position is in this debate, it serves as evidence, I believe ...
... relationship to teaching is precisely what makes composition different from other academic disciplines and that this relationship ought to be preserved. No matter what one's position is in this debate, it serves as evidence, I believe ...
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... relationship between text and author and with the manner in which the text points to this 'figure' that, at least in appearance, is outside it and antecedes it” ( ). This term suggests a person—a body, a “character”— implied by a ...
... relationship between text and author and with the manner in which the text points to this 'figure' that, at least in appearance, is outside it and antecedes it” ( ). This term suggests a person—a body, a “character”— implied by a ...
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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