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When Vladimir Nabokov was up for a chair in literature at Harvard, the linguist Roman Jakobson protested: &;What&;s next?. Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?.

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PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press

ISBN-100226554546

ISBN-139780226554549

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Number of Pages256 Pages

Publication NameElephants Teach : Creative Writing since 1880

LanguageEnglish

SubjectGeneral, Study & Teaching, Composition & Creative Writing

Publication Year2006

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines, Education

AuthorDavid Gershom Myers

FormatPerfect

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Item Weight15.3 Oz

Item Length0.9 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2005-035587

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ReviewsThe Elephants Teachis an astonishing piece of work. . . . Under the author's magic it becomes the story of a great part of our culture since the turn of the century., Myers is thorough, his writing is clear, and the history he has to tell will be to most, if not all, current teachers of creative writing little short of a revelation. . . . This is a book all teachers of creative writing should read., This material I think should be required for anyone who intends to teach creative writing on the college or university level., "This material I think should be required for anyone who intends to teach creative writing on the college or university level."Patrick Bizzaro,College Composition and Communication, " The Elephants Teach is an astonishing piece of work. . . . Under the author's magic it becomes the story of a great part of our culture since the turn of the century." - from the Foreword by Jacques Barzun, Myers is thorough, his writing is clear, and the history he has to tell will be to most, if not all, current teachers of creative writing little short of a revelation. . . . This is a book all teachers of creative writing should read., "This material I think should be required for anyone who intends to teach creative writing on the college or university level."-Patrick Bizzaro, College Composition and Communication, " The Elephants Teach is an astonishing piece of work. . . . Under the author's magic it becomes the story of a great part of our culture since the turn of the century." from the Foreword by Jacques Barzun, In clear prose and careful scholarship, David Myers . . . tells the story of how what was supposed to free English literature from the trap of academic disciplines became itself an academic discipline., The Elephants Teach is an astonishing piece of work. . . . Under the author's magic it becomes the story of a great part of our culture since the turn of the century.

Dewey Edition22

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal808/.042071173

Table Of ContentAbout the Author Foreword by Jacques Barzun Preface Introduction 1. When Philology Was in Flower 2. The Founding of English Composition 3. The Problem of Writing in a Practical Age 4. An Index of Adagios 5. The Sudden Adoption of Creative Work 6. Criticism Takes Command 7. The Elephant Machine Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

SynopsisWhen Vladimir Nabokov was up for a chair in literature at Harvard, the linguist Roman Jakobson protested: "What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?" That anecdote, with which D. G. Myers begins The Elephants Teach , perfectly frames the issues this book tackles. Myers explores more than a century of debate over how writing should be taught and whether it can or should be taught in a classroom at all. Along the way, he incorporates insights from a host of poets and teachers, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Frost, John Berryman, John Dewey, Lionel Trilling, Robert Lowell, Ezra Pound, and Saul Bellow. And from his exhaustive research, Myers extracts relevant background information on nineteenth-century educational theory; shifts in technology, publishing, and marketing; the growth of critical theory in this country; and the politics of higher education. While he shows how creative writing has become a machine for creating more creative writing programs, Myers also suggests that its history supplies a precedent for something different--a way for creativity and criticism, poetry and scholarship, to join together to produce not just writing programs but good writers. Updated with fresh commentary on what's happened to creative writing in the academy since the first edition was published ten years ago, The Elephants Teach will be indispensable for students and teachers of writing, literature, and literary history., When Vladimir Nabokov was up for a chair in literature at Harvard, the linguist Roman Jakobson protested: "What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?" That anecdote, with which D. G. Myers begins The Elephants Teach , perfectly frames the issues this book tackles. Myers explores more than a century of debate over how writing should be taught and whether it can or should be taught in a classroom at all. Along the way, he incorporates insights from a host of poets and teachers, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Frost, John Berryman, John Dewey, Lionel Trilling, Robert Lowell, Ezra Pound, and Saul Bellow. And from his exhaustive research, Myers extracts relevant background information on nineteenth-century educational theory; shifts in technology, publishing, and marketing; the growth of critical theory in this country; and the politics of higher education. While he shows how creative writing has become a machine for creating more creative writing programs, Myers also suggests that its history supplies a precedent for something different-a way for creativity and criticism, poetry and scholarship, to join together to produce not just writing programs but good writers. Updated with fresh commentary on what's happened to creative writing in the academy since the first edition was published ten years ago, The Elephants Teach will be indispensable for students and teachers of writing, literature, and literary history., This book traces the development of "creative" writing as a classroom subject, the teaching of fiction- and verse-writing; and as a national system for the employment of fiction writers and poets to teach the subject. It answers the questions, "Why has fiction and verse writing come to be called creative?" and "When and why was this term first used?"

LC Classification NumberPE1405.U6M94 2006