Composition Theory for the Postmodern Classroom
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Gary A. Olson is Professor of English and teaches in the graduate program in rhetoric and composition at the University of South Florida. He is the author of Philosophy, Rhetoric, Literary Criticism: (Inter)views. Olson served as editor of the Journal of Advanced Composition from 1985-1994. Sidney I. Dobrin teaches composition, technical writing, and professional writing for graduate students at the University of South Florida, where he serves as Associate Editor of JAC.
<p>"...Composition Theory for the Postmodern Classroom comes into place at a critical moment. We have worked assiduously to flesh out the ways and means of composition for a new era. This text helps to document our way." —Jones Royster, from the Foreword</p><p>"JAC has been a central resource for the presentation and consideration of 'theory' in composition studies. These essays act as springboards for reflecting on the ways in which we interrogate and problematize in this discourse community.</p><p>"As I read the collection of essays, I was frequently reminded that despite seemingly indefinite variation in the circumstances of teaching, composition teachers do not treat theory as a refuge from practice, but value instead what it can tell them about writing and writing pedagogy. I hear in these essays echoes of an inclination to reject precepts that ignore writing and teaching in the name of common sense, and I see traces on the paths taken of the uncommon intention to practice and teach writing—for a change." — Linda Brodkey, from the Afterword</p>
Composition Theory for the Postmodern Classroom is a collection of the most outstanding articles published in the Journal of Advanced Composition over the last decade. Together these essays represent the breadth and strength of composition scholarship that has fruitfully engaged with critical theory in its many manifestations. In drawing on the critical discourses of philosophers, feminists, literary theorists, African Americanists, cultural theorists, and others, these compositionists have enriched the discourse in the field, broadened intellectual conceptions of the multiple roles and functions of discourse, and opened up an infinite number of questions and new possibilities for composition theory and pedagogy.
Foreword
Jacqueline Jones Royster
Introduction
Gary A. Olson and Sidney I. Dobrin
The Process of Writing
The Process of Writing: A Philosophical Base in Hermeneutics
James L. Kinneavy
Dichotomy, Consubstantiality, Technical Writing, Literary Theory: The Double Orthodox Curse
Jasper Neel
Writing in the Graduate Curriculum: Literary Criticism as Composition
Patricia A. Sullivan
What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Women and Writing Blocks
Mary Kupiec Cayton
Theory and the Teaching of Writing
Some Difficulties with Collaborative Learning
David W. Smit
Becoming Aware of the Myth of Presence
Reed Way Dasenbrock
Toward an Ethics of Teaching Writing in a Hazardous Context—The University
Sandy Moore and Michael Kleine
Repositioning the Profession: Teaching Writing to African American Students
Thomas Fox
The Essay and Composition Theory
Rediscovering the Essay
W. Ross Winterowd
The Recent Rise of Literary Nonfiction: A Cautionary Assay
Douglas Hesse
Why Don't We Write What We Teach? And Publish It?
Lynn Z. Bloom
Gender, Culture, and Radical Pedagogy
Sexism in Academic Styles of Learning
David Bleich
The Dialectic Suppression of Feminist Thought
Robert G. Wood
Paulo Freire and the Politics of Postcolonialism
Henry A. Giroux
After Progressivism: Modern Composition, Institutional Service, and Cultural Studies
Michael Murphy
The Other Reader
Joseph Harris
Articulation Theory and the Problem of Determination: A Reading of Lives on the Boundary
John Trimbur
Peer Response in the Multicultural Composition Classroom: Dissensus—A Dream (Deferred)
Carrie Shively Leverez
Rhetoric, Philosophy, and Discourse
Nietzsche in Basel: Writing Reading
J. Hills Miller
Externalism and the Production of Discourse
Thomas Kent
Interrupting the Conversation: The Constructionist Dialogue in Composition
Joseph Petraglia
Defining Rhetoric—and Us: A Meditation on Burke's Definitions
Richard M. Coe
Afterword
Linda Brodkey
Contributors
Index
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Gary A. Olson is Professor of English and teaches in the graduate program in rhetoric and composition at the University of South Florida. He is the author of Philosophy, Rhetoric, Literary Criticism: (Inter)views. Olson served as editor of the Journal of Advanced Composition from 1985-1994. Sidney I. Dobrin teaches composition, technical writing, and professional writing for graduate students at the University of South Florida, where he serves as Associate Editor of JAC.