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Being an artist and being a critic is two different riles that Elbow expresses along with his colleague Bartholomae. To tear down each subject it comes to the fine point of the definition of self. Both Elbow and Bartholomae have very different ideas of this definition and they test each other based on their own theory. Elbows says being an artist in the writing field is something that everyone is capable of doing. Elbow's English classes are focused on the idea of writing and writing physically more so than textural reading and textual writing. Which is completely opposite of Bartholomae's English classes, which are focused on reading from the text and writing about what he/she thinks, being a critic of someone else's work. Being an artistic writer take individual (free) thinking, where as being an academic critic is based on individual thoughts just not so freely.
Posted by katiegirl0120 on September 5, 2008
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