Elephants Teach Creative Writing Since 1880

Name: Elephants Teach Creative Writing Since 1880
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ISBN: 9780226554549

ISBN-10: 0226554546

ISBN-13: 9780226554549

Edition: 2006

Authors: David Gershom Myers

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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?" 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…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English



About the Author


Foreword



Preface


Introduction



When Philology Was in Flower



The Founding of English Composition



The Problem of Writing in a Practical Age



An Index of Adagios



The Sudden Adoption of Creative Work



Criticism Takes Command



The Elephant Machine


Afterword


Notes


Bibliography


Index