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Thesis
How Can It Be Taught?
University of West Florida Libraries
Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida
2009
Abstract
Creative writing has had a strenuous relationship with academia. Contextualizing this relationship in the contemporary, corporatized university requires an examination of the power relationships formed in departments and in the university as a whole as a result of disciplinarity. If creative writers want to rectify their current status in the university, they must first become aware of the history of their field and its relationship to the other factions of the English department. Then they must become aware of that which hinders creative writing's becoming a discipline: reliance on lore, issues with authority in the classroom, and a problematic ethos. This project examines these elements and suggests that creative writing as a field should pursue alternative discourses-through a utilization of rhetoric and composition's interdisciplinary style and methodologies-as a means of carving out a new territory in the English department, one that seeks to unite fractured specialties into an English studies. Ultimately, the risk of such a pursuit is less than the risk of stagnation and further devaluation by the corporatized university.
Details
- Title
- How Can It Be Taught?
- Resource Type
- Thesis
- Publisher
- University of West Florida Libraries
- Format
- pdf
- Number of pages
- 73
- Copyright
- © Eric Lynn Vinke
- Identifiers
- 99380090720306600
- Academic Unit
- English
- Language
- English
- Awarding Institution
- University of West Florida; Master of Arts (MA)
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), University of West Florida