The work of teaching writing - Joseph Harris 2020

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Dead poets and wonder boys

Plodders, dilettantes, novices

Dead poets

Wonder boys

The work of teaching writing

A drama of language

Beginnings

What can that mean?

Thoughtful or smart?

Jetsam

Incunabula

Work in progress

Writing, teaching, and sex

Workshops

A mean socratic method

Teaching as mentoring

Teaching as friendship

Forging a self

Ciphers

Deceivers

Plagiarism

Cryptomnesia

Craft

The limits of rhetoric

A (failed) lesson in writing

Pleasured speech

Postscript

On the job

Background readings

References