(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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Composition, Creative Writing, and the Future of English Studies Tim Mayers. Preface. I majored in English as an undergraduate because I wanted to become a better writer. I wanted, eventually, to write poetry and fiction well enough to ...
Composition, Creative Writing, and the Future of English Studies Tim Mayers. Preface. I majored in English as an undergraduate because I wanted to become a better writer. I wanted, eventually, to write poetry and fiction well enough to ...
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Composition, Creative Writing, and the Future of English Studies Tim Mayers. in my classes something dramatically different from the many literature- and interpretation-centered courses they must take to fulfill the requirements of the ...
Composition, Creative Writing, and the Future of English Studies Tim Mayers. in my classes something dramatically different from the many literature- and interpretation-centered courses they must take to fulfill the requirements of the ...
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Composition, Creative Writing, and the Future of English Studies Tim Mayers. to blame their own colleagues, arguing that creative writing had been severed from “intellectual discourse” and that creative writers needed to study up on ...
Composition, Creative Writing, and the Future of English Studies Tim Mayers. to blame their own colleagues, arguing that creative writing had been severed from “intellectual discourse” and that creative writers needed to study up on ...
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Composition, Creative Writing, and the Future of English Studies Tim Mayers. not enough to “undraw” the lines between the two fields. In other words, the theoretical connections between composition and creative writing mean very little ...
Composition, Creative Writing, and the Future of English Studies Tim Mayers. not enough to “undraw” the lines between the two fields. In other words, the theoretical connections between composition and creative writing mean very little ...
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Composition, Creative Writing, and the Future of English Studies Tim Mayers. has often been at odds with (and at ... composition studies. In order to make such a case, I define craft criticism as a type of critical prose written by ...
Composition, Creative Writing, and the Future of English Studies Tim Mayers. has often been at odds with (and at ... composition studies. In order to make such a case, I define craft criticism as a type of critical prose written by ...
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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