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I'm delighted to hear about Will's new book! Watch for a collection of literary memoir essays, Will, by Robert Stepto, due out this fall --I think one or two of them might be excellent for the text you propose. all best - Andrea At 03:19 PM 7/15/1998 -0700, you wrote: >Here's a general discussion topic & request >for feedback: > >I've recently signed a contract with Broadview press >to bring out a text on "Writing About Literature: Prose >Fiction." It's part of the press' new "writing in the >disciplines" series--one designed to give undergraduate >readers "insider knowledge" re: writing in various areas. > >In my proposal I noted that, unlike creative writing >courses, where students read examples of >fine poetry or prose fiction as models to be emulated, >literature courses ask students to spend most of their >time studying forms they will never be asked to write. >My text proposes a teaching/studying aid--a cross between >a rhetoric & a casebook (Stephen Crane's wonderful >short story "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" will be >included in the text, & most advice on composition & >critical approaches will reference "Yellow sky"). > >Anyway, here's my question: why, to date, has so little >been written about the rhetoric of literary essays? I'm >aware of Fahnestock and Secor's provocative piece, "The >Rhetoric of Literary Criticism," but there seems little >substantive (pedagogical) work in this area. I'll be >looking, for example, at the relationship between >first-year critical essays & their professional counterparts, >& considering what students might learn by via a rhetorical >analysis of professional models & methods & institutional >contexts. > >I'm also interested in what CASLL members might like to see >in such a text. Where might the sort of standard resource >(I'm thinking of books by Griffith, Barnet, and Roberts) be >improved? Do others see potential (as I do) in using >contemporary rhetoric & composition theory to explain, interpret, >& teach students how to write essays about literature? > >Feel free to reply on or off list. My email address >is [log in to unmask] > >Regards, Will > > < < W.F. Garrett-Petts > > > > English & Modern Lang ._______ > UCC, 900 McGill Rd | \ / | Voice: (250) 828-5248 > Box 3010, Kamloops .--|.O.|.O.|______. FAX: (250) 371-5697 > B.C. V2C 5N3 Can.__).-| = | = |/ \ | E-mail: [log in to unmask] > >__) (.'---`.)Q.|.Q.|--. http://www.cariboo.bc.ca > \\___// = | = |-.(__ > `---'( .---. ) (__< > \\.-.// > `---' > >