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November 20, 2005
forms & boundaries (genre 12.2/25)
Cain, Mary Ann. "Problematizing Formalism: A Double-cross of Genre Boundaries." CCC 51:1 (1999): 89-95.
1 sentence summary: (as part of a larger conversation about positive potential overlaps between composition & creative writing) formalism "persists" even though we'd like to talk as if it doesn't; "the formal properties of a text...define its boundaries and, in part, help determine its value as a text" (90); its "ghosts" still "exert...influences...on us as writers and teachers and...upon the students we teach" (94).
Posted by ttobryan at November 20, 2005 04:51 PM