(RE) Writing Craft: Composition, Creative Writing, and the Future of English Studies by Tim Mayers

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(Re)Writing Craft explores the past, present, and possible future relationships between composition studies and creative writing, two subfields of English studies that have struggled for recognition and prestige in the shadow of the dominant presence in English departments: literary studies. Author Tim Mayers, himself a compositionist and creative writer, proposes an alliance between composition and creative writing by which these subfields would stand to gain substantially more than by simply reconciling themselves individually with literary studies.

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• ISBN: 0822942569
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Pub. Date: June 2005
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• Attributes: Dust Jacket

Comments from the Seller: 2005 Hardcover As New in As New dust jacket 0822942569. In shrink-wrap.; In shrink-wrap.; Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, & Culture; 188 pages; (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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