(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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... writer wants to do may not have much correlation with what is actually accomplished : “ Literary history is normally a retrospective cate- gory of bureaucratic struggle and consensus , and not a site for active writing . Writers write ...
... writer wants to do may not have much correlation with what is actually accomplished : “ Literary history is normally a retrospective cate- gory of bureaucratic struggle and consensus , and not a site for active writing . Writers write ...
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Composition, Creative Writing, and the Future of English Studies Tim Mayers. its need ... writing , I became , in effect , the department's fullest- fledged ... active as a participant in the professional discourse of composition studies ...
Composition, Creative Writing, and the Future of English Studies Tim Mayers. its need ... writing , I became , in effect , the department's fullest- fledged ... active as a participant in the professional discourse of composition studies ...
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... writing theory and pedagogy . For example , the tensions between “ expressivist ” and “ social constructivist " theo- ries and pedagogies might become more productive if craft critics were active participants in the debate . But even ...
... writing theory and pedagogy . For example , the tensions between “ expressivist ” and “ social constructivist " theo- ries and pedagogies might become more productive if craft critics were active participants in the debate . But even ...
Contents
Craft Criticism and the Possibility | 29 |
Writing Reading Thinking and | 65 |
Terms of an Alliance | 97 |
Copyright | |
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