(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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Page 37
... essay remains thoroughly rooted in the interpretive mode , which is the third and most important reason why I have chosen it ; even though it does , at times , seem to summon forth questions about textual production , these questions ...
... essay remains thoroughly rooted in the interpretive mode , which is the third and most important reason why I have chosen it ; even though it does , at times , seem to summon forth questions about textual production , these questions ...
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... essay . Others , though , include several different types of writing , such as the personal essay . The self - reflexiveness encouraged by a portfolio pedagogy is particu- larly helpful in a composition course that includes multiple ...
... essay . Others , though , include several different types of writing , such as the personal essay . The self - reflexiveness encouraged by a portfolio pedagogy is particu- larly helpful in a composition course that includes multiple ...
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... essay is also reprinted in Santos's essay collection entitled A Poetry of Two Minds . The reprinted version of the essay has a slightly different subtitle , “ How Does Poetry Think ? " 5. My guess is that this comment is primarily aimed ...
... essay is also reprinted in Santos's essay collection entitled A Poetry of Two Minds . The reprinted version of the essay has a slightly different subtitle , “ How Does Poetry Think ? " 5. My guess is that this comment is primarily aimed ...
Contents
Craft Criticism and the Possibility | 29 |
Writing Reading Thinking and | 65 |
Terms of an Alliance | 97 |
Copyright | |
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