Again, but Different, and Again:
A Pedagogy of Excess in The Writing Life of Annie Dillard
David Berridge
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This prompts questions of my own: is Dillard celebrating a perceptual, associative and literary facility which, if it is good enough, can break its own rules? Is Dillard a creative writing pedagogue who emphasizes-with-variation again and again to ensure a point made and remembered? If that umbilical cord and price tag play close with cliché, is it to suggest an absurd, parodic aspect to writing, or writing about writing? All yes, if I am answering from my own readerly experience, and this is a strategy explained by how Dillard repeats it elsewhere. Click here to continue reading.
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Process as Processing:
An Analysis of Illustration and AI Use in Vauhini Vara’s “Ghosts”
Richard A. Decker
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Several weeks ago, I had the opportunity to cover one of my colleague’s classes, a college-level introduction to literature and creative writing. He was open to me teaching any text I felt would fit his nonfiction unit. For inspiration, I turned to the 2022 edition of The Best American Essays edited by Alexander Chee, and it was there that I discovered Vauhini Vara’s “Ghosts,” a piece that, I would argue, transparently and meaningfully uses AI during the writing process and can serve as an excellent text to teach in writing classes. Click here to continue reading.
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