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(Re)Writing Craft: Composition, Creative Writing, and the Future of English Studies (Pitt Comp Literacy Culture)
Tim Mayers
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Description for (Re)Writing Craft: Composition, Creative Writing, and the Future of English Studies (Pitt Comp Literacy Culture)
Paperback. Explores the relationships between composition studies and creative writing, two subfields of English studies that have struggled for recognition and prestige in the shadow of literary studies. This work concludes that the separate fields of composition and creative writing together have the potential to carve out an academic disciplinary space. Series: Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CBV; CFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 281.
(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 ... Read more
(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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Condition
New
Series
Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Pittsburgh PA, United States
ISBN
9780822959694
SKU
V9780822959694
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About Tim Mayers
Tim Mayers is an assistant professor of English at Millersville University of Pennsylvania.
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