SENTIMENTAL JOURNEYS Anti-Romanticism and Academic Identity

• Published in: Writing With Elbow p. 21
• Main Author: Thomas Newkirk
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Utah State University Press 01.04.2003
• Subjects: Anthropology; Applied anthropology; Artists; Arts; Basic writing; Behavioral sciences; Cognitive psychology; Cultural anthropology; Economic disciplines; Economics; Education; Educational personnel; Educators; Emotion; Emotional expression; Emotional states; Employment; Folk culture; Folk music; Folkloristics; Folksongs; Formal education; Humanities instruction; Labor economics; Language arts; Literary genres; Literature; Love; Occupations; Pedagogy; Popular culture; Psychology; Religious literature; Sentimentality; Teachers; Writers; Writing instruction; Writing teachers
• ISBN: 9780874214307; 0874214300
• DOI: 10.2307/j.ctt46nxbc.9

My doctoral advisor, the late James Kinneavy, once said that his original ideas were those for which he had forgotten the source. I think of this uncomfortable piece of wisdom when I recall, vividly and with some mortification, the time I picked Peter Elbow up at the Boston airport around 1980. It was the first time I’d met Peter, and on the way up to Durham, he characteristically got me talking about my teaching. I explained to him about how my students seemed blocked by their prior academic training, how they had an overly formalized sense of what writing should