(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 24
... structural discourses of change . Structural discourses seek to chal- lenge , and often to eradicate , many of the institutional lines drawn within English studies , most notably the lines between composition and literature or between ...
... structural discourses of change . Structural discourses seek to chal- lenge , and often to eradicate , many of the institutional lines drawn within English studies , most notably the lines between composition and literature or between ...
Page 129
... structural change . The greatest danger in theoretical reform proposals , in other words , is not that they will radically transform English studies , but that by themselves they cannot transform English studies , except in fleeting and ...
... structural change . The greatest danger in theoretical reform proposals , in other words , is not that they will radically transform English studies , but that by themselves they cannot transform English studies , except in fleeting and ...
Page 130
... structural change within English studies might , in the short term and the long term , happen together and sustain each other . The " blueprints for change " that follow , then , should not be taken as an in- fallible map of where ...
... structural change within English studies might , in the short term and the long term , happen together and sustain each other . The " blueprints for change " that follow , then , should not be taken as an in- fallible map of where ...
Contents
Craft Criticism and the Possibility | 29 |
Writing Reading Thinking and | 65 |
Terms of an Alliance | 97 |
Copyright | |
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