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Textual Carnivals
In this study of the status of composition in English studies programs, Miller (English, U. of Utah) notes the institutional marginalization of composition and its teachers, and calls on her associates in composition to engage in a broader political interpretation of composition by persistently critiquing the current agendas of their discipline and reinterpreting its misdirected social history. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Truth and Consequences
Contemporary literary theory takes truth and meaning to be dependent on shared conventions in a community of discourse and views authors' intentions as irrelevant to interpretation. This view, argues Reed Way Dasenbrock, owes much to Anglo-American analytic philosophy as developed in the 1950s and 1960s by such thinkers as Austin and Kuhn, but it ignores more recent work by philosophers like Davidson and Putnam, who have mounted a counterattack on this earlier conventionalism. This book draws on current analytic philosophy to resuscitate the notion of objective truth and intentionalist models of meaning and interpretation, thereby moving beyond the antifoundationalism of postmodern theory. I...
Trauma and the Teaching of Writing
Deepening and broadening our understanding of what it means to teach in times of trauma, writing teachers analyze their own responses to national traumas ranging from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to the various appropriations of 9/11. Offering personal, historical, and cultural perspectives, they question both the purposes and pedagogies of teaching writing.
The Writing Center Director's Resource Book
The Writing Center Director's Resource Book has been developed to serve as a guide to writing center professionals in carrying out their various roles, duties, and responsibilities. It is a resource for those whose jobs not only encompass a wide range of tasks but also require a broad knowledge of multiple issues. The volume provides information on the most significant areas of writing center work that writing center professionals--both new and seasoned--are likely to encounter. It is structured for use in diverse institutional settings, providing both current knowledge as well as case studies of specific settings that represent the types of challenges and possible outcomes writing center professionals may experience. This blend of theory with actual practice provides a multi-dimensional view of writing center work. In the end, this book serves not only as a resource but also as a guide to future directions for the writing center, which will continue to evolve in response to a myriad of new challenges that will lie ahead.
Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
English as a Discipline, Or, Is There a Plot in this Play?
A collection of critical reviews of some 140 representative South American feature films, encompassing the most important genres and directors of every era, including the silent era, studio films of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s, and the New Latin American Cinema. Entries organized by country discuss a film's genesis, themes, socio-political context, and major credits, and cite key Spanish-language film reference works. Includes title, director, and name indices, two subject indices, and glossaries of Brazilian and film terms. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Writing Program Administrator's Resource
This handbook offers wisdom and guidance from experienced college writing program administrators. It is intended for WPAs at all levels of experience.
Bodies in a Broken World
In this multidisciplinary study, Ann Folwell Stanford reads literature written by U.S. women of color to propose a rethinking of modern medical practice, arguing that personal health and social justice are inextricably linked. Drawing on feminist ethics t
James Baldwin Now
White fantasies of desire : Baldwin and the racial identities of sexuality / Marlon B. Ross -- Now more than ever : James Baldwin and the critique of white liberalism / Rebecca Aanerud -- Finding the words : Baldwin, race consciousness, and democratic theory / Lawrie Balfour -- Culture, rhetoric, and queer identity : James Baldwin and the identity politics of race and sexuality / William J. Spurlin -- Of mimicry and (little man little) man : toward a queersighted theory of black childhood / Nicholas Boggs -- Sexual exiles : James Baldwin and Another country / James A. Dievler -- Baldwin's cosmopolitan loneliness / James Darsey -- "Alas, poor Richard!" : transatlantic Baldwin, the politics of...
Voice of the Oppressed in the Language of the Oppressor
This book examines works from twelve authors from colonized cultures who write in English: William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Chinua Achebe, Maxine Hong Kinston, Amy Tan, Toni Morrison, Alic Walker, Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo, Louise Erdrich, and Leslie Marmon Silko. The book fins connection among these writers and their respective works. Patsy Daniels argues that the thinkers and writers of colonized culture must learn the language of the colonizer and take it back to their own community thus making themselves translators who occupy a manufactured, hybdid space between two cultures.
