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- (Re)Writing Craft: Composition, Creative Writing, and the Future of English Studies
- Book
- 2005
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture
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(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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xvii-xx
- 4. Terms of an Alliance
- pp. 97-128
- 5. Starting Somewhere
- pp. 129-168
- Works Cited
- pp. 175-182
- Back Cover
- p. 210
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822973287
Related ISBN(s)
9780822942566, 9780822959694
MARC Record
OCLC
647182099
Pages
208
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No