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(Re)Writing Craft : Composition, Creative Writing, and the Future of English Studies

By Tim Mayers

Book information

Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Year
2005
ISBN
9780822973287, 9780822942566
LCC
PE1404
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13896697 bytes)
Series
Composition, Literacy, and Culture Ser.
Edition
1
Pages
209\209
Time added
2023-08-08 05:44:26
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Description

(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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