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Textual Carnivals The Politics of Composition

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ISBN-10: 0809319225

ISBN-13: 9780809319220

Edition: 1993

Authors: Susan Miller

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This is the first book-length study of the status of composition in English studies and the uneasy relationship between composition and literature. Composition studies and institutional histories of English studies have long needed this kind of clarification of the historical and political contexts of composition teaching, research, and administration. Susan Miller argues that composition constitutes a major national industry, citing the four million freshman-level students enrolled in such courses each year, the $40 million annual expenditure for textbooks, and the more than $50 million in teacher salaries. But this concrete magnitude is not expressed in political power within…    
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Book details

List price: $39.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Publication date: 9/28/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

She has been an internationally acclaimed astrologer for over twenty-five years. A member of several astrological organizations and the author of The Astrology Book of Days. Susan Miller lives in New York City.