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ENGL-330-01 Craft Studies: Lit/Comp/Creative (seminar)
Spring only
ENGL330 Craft Studies: Lit/Comp/Creative (seminar)
By permission of instructor (see below).
Pre-requisite: at least one college-level writing elective.
The field of Craft Studies is succinctly described by one of its leading practitioners as “engaged theorizing” about creative writing. But what does it mean to attach the word “studies” to the craft of writing? to describe the course as a “seminar” as well as a “writing workshop”? If such questions arise, it is because, within the institutions where we write and study “English,” we long ago accepted a simplistic and artificial distinction between the mastery of skills and the intellectual work of making meaning. Craft Studies challenges that distinction; in so doing, it makes possible a theoretical engagement with creative writing.
At once a seminar and a workshop, this course will explore the intersection of three strands of English studies--literature, composition, and imaginative writing–as they converge in the study of writing as craft. We will examine theories of writing and the teaching of writing as formulated by practicing writers in many genres: poets, essayists, fiction writers, theorists, teachers of writing, and literary/cultural critics. Over the course of the semester, students will write and revise a critical essay, develop a substantial first-person theoretical essay on the writing subject, and participate in an ongoing writing workshop.
Permission: In order to secure a place in the class, please send a one-page letter of application on or before November 14 to Professor Norma Tilden (tildenn@georgetown.edu).
Your letter should (1) briefly list college-level writing course(s) that you have taken, and
(2) address the writing prompt below.
In a recent study of the writer’s craft, Katherine Haake observes that “Creativity is a dangerous theory . . . because it masks itself as natural, without a theory.” Why do you want to enroll in a course that investigates working writers’ theories on the craft of writing?
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
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