(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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... Language Poets . For example , while Bernstein rejects the ( apparently ) antitheoretical posturings of New Critical humanism , he does not exactly embrace postmodern theories simply because they call New Critical humanism into question ...
... Language Poets . For example , while Bernstein rejects the ( apparently ) antitheoretical posturings of New Critical humanism , he does not exactly embrace postmodern theories simply because they call New Critical humanism into question ...
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... poet is not also skilled at employing traditional poetic devices and work- ing in traditional poetic forms . This characterization of the poetic mainstream ( against which Language Poets and New Formalists define themselves ) may be ...
... poet is not also skilled at employing traditional poetic devices and work- ing in traditional poetic forms . This characterization of the poetic mainstream ( against which Language Poets and New Formalists define themselves ) may be ...
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... poets must return to re- ceived poetic forms in order to revitalize poetry . Perhaps he is also disturbed by the Language Poets ' ( and their academic admirers ' ) apparent reduction of poetry to a mere instrument in a struggle for ...
... poets must return to re- ceived poetic forms in order to revitalize poetry . Perhaps he is also disturbed by the Language Poets ' ( and their academic admirers ' ) apparent reduction of poetry to a mere instrument in a struggle for ...
Contents
Craft Criticism and the Possibility | 29 |
Writing Reading Thinking and | 65 |
Terms of an Alliance | 97 |
Copyright | |
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