(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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... and the Possibility of Theoretical Scholarship in Creative Writing Chapter . Writing, Reading, Thinking, and the Question Concerning Craft Chapter . Terms of an Alliance Chapter . Starting Somewhere Notes Works Cited Index ...
... and the Possibility of Theoretical Scholarship in Creative Writing Chapter . Writing, Reading, Thinking, and the Question Concerning Craft Chapter . Terms of an Alliance Chapter . Starting Somewhere Notes Works Cited Index ...
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... scholarship. Interesting hybrid creative writing/composition scholarship has also appeared recently from established scholars like Patrick Bizzaro and emerging voices like Kelly Ritter. My task in this book will be to build upon such ...
... scholarship. Interesting hybrid creative writing/composition scholarship has also appeared recently from established scholars like Patrick Bizzaro and emerging voices like Kelly Ritter. My task in this book will be to build upon such ...
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... scholarship. Large doctoral programs in literature use the first-year composition course as an institutional support mechanism. Students aspiring toward careers as scholars and teachers of Shakespeare, Milton, Toni Morrison, Margaret ...
... scholarship. Large doctoral programs in literature use the first-year composition course as an institutional support mechanism. Students aspiring toward careers as scholars and teachers of Shakespeare, Milton, Toni Morrison, Margaret ...
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... by many prominent scholars in composition have remained, there can be little doubt that scholarship in composition has become a thriving enterprise. Likewise, recipients of doctoral degrees in The Shifting Boundaries ofEnglish Studies.
... by many prominent scholars in composition have remained, there can be little doubt that scholarship in composition has become a thriving enterprise. Likewise, recipients of doctoral degrees in The Shifting Boundaries ofEnglish Studies.
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... scholarship with roots in history, philosophy, ethnography, cognitive psychology, and other academic fields. And it certainly would not be a stretch to argue that composition studies continued to develop and diversify with increasing ...
... scholarship with roots in history, philosophy, ethnography, cognitive psychology, and other academic fields. And it certainly would not be a stretch to argue that composition studies continued to develop and diversify with increasing ...
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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