What I Learned in Grad School, or Literary Training and the Theorizing of Composition

Composition Studies and Literary Criticism: A Hermeneutic Transaction

“…Scholarship in both fields abounds with examples. Linda Peterson (1991) [63] transfers feminist criticism's characterization of autobiographical writing as a women-genre to the teaching of writing, and Krisite Yager (1996) [89] and Patrick Bizzaro (1999) [6] set the historical roots of Peter Elbow's (2002) [26] thinking in his literature training and particularly its relation to English Romanticism in their attempt to reveal more connections between expressivism in composition theory and literary tradition. Another effect that feminism left on composition studies and literature classes is the trend to teach thematic classes especially on feminist issues.…”