(Re)Writing Craft: Composition, Creative Writing, and the Future of English Studies (Composition, Literacy, and Culture) - Hardcover

Mayers, Timothy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0822942569 ISBN 13: 9780822942566

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005

Synopsis

(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 \u0022craft criticism,\u0022 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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Review

A penetrating critique of English studies in the academy . . . provides an excellent history and overview of the current state of English studies. Written in a down-to-earth style with plenty of examples, this book will be accessible and interesting for readers at all levels." - Choice

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822942569
• ISBN 13: 9780822942566
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224