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The Elephants Teach: Creative Writing Since 1880
David Gershom Myers
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| #844702 in Books | D G Myers | 2006-06-01 | 2006-06-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.90 x6.00l,.85 | File type: PDF | 256 pages | The Elephants Teach Creative Writing Since 1880||1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Very well researched, but rushed at the end|By writergeek313|This book stands out as the only one tracing the history of the teaching of creative writing. Myers's research is very thorough, and his examination of the teaching of writing at Harvard was especially interesting to me. At times, though, the book plods along, fueled more by the devotion to facts of a historian than t||
“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||
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 ...
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