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A counter-history of composition

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A Counter-History of Composition contests the foundational disciplinary assumption that vitalism and contemporary rhetoric represent opposing, disconnected poles in the writing tradition. Vitalism has been historically linked to expressivism and concurrently dismissed as innate, intuitive, and unteachable, whereas rhetoric is seen as a rational, teachable method for producing argumentative texts. Counter to this, Byron Hawk identifies vitalism as the ground for producing rhetorical texts-the product of complex material relations rather than the product of chance. Through insightful historical

Title A counter-history of composition : toward methodologies of complexity / Byron Hawk.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press
Creation Date [2007]
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Mapping rhetoric and composition -- Cartography and forgetting -- Remapping method -- A short counter-history -- Technology-complexity-methodology -- Toward inventive composition pedagogies.
Series Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture
Extent 1 online resource (325 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2007
National Library system number 997010714792505171
MARC RECORDS
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