Style in Rhetoric and Composition A Critical Sourcebook

Name: Style in Rhetoric and Composition A Critical Sourcebook
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ISBN: 9780312547332

ISBN-10: 0312547331

ISBN-13: 9780312547332

Edition: 2010

Authors: Paul Butler

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Style in Rhetoric and Composition gathers essays that trace the evolution of the study of style and illustrates the debates that continue to shape style pedagogies within the field of rhetoric and composition. Selections encompass works by classical rhetoricians and modern compositionists alike addressing a range of issues that includes grammar in style, sentence-based pedagogies, imitation, and alternative rhetorics.

Book details

List price: $67.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Bedford/Saint Martin's
Publication date: 3/16/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 688
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.23" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Introduction: The Stylistic (Re) Turn in Rhetoric and Composition



The Rise and Fall of the Study of Style


Introduction


The Rise



On Prose Style




From Orator




Book X, Chapter 2



The Fall



Apologies and Accommodations: Imitation and the Writing Process




The Erasure of the Sentence




Whatever Happened to the Paragraph?




Stylistic Influences and Debates


Introduction



Theories of Style and Their Implications for the Teaching of Composition




A Generative Rhetoric of the Sentence




The Relation of Grammar to Style




Closing the Books on Alchemy




Use Definite, Specific, Concrete Language




Defining Complexity




Style and Pedagogy


Introduction



Teaching Style




Grammars of Style: New Options in Composition




Revitalizing Style: Toward a New Theory and Pedagogy




Making a Case for Rhetorical Grammar




Down from the Haymow: One Hundred Years of Sentence-Combining




Style and Culture


Introduction



"How I Got Ovuh": African World View and Afro-American Oral Tradition




Professing Multiculturalism: The Politics of Style in the Contact Zone




The Feminine Style: Theory and Fact




The Cultures of Literature and Composition: What Could Each Learn from the Other?




Style and the Future


Introduction



Ancient and Contemporary Compositions That "Come Alive": Clarity as Pleasure, Sound as Magic




The National Prose Problem




Style and the Public Intellectual: Rethinking Composition in the Public Sphere




Sounding the Other Who Speaks in Me: Toward a Dialogic Understanding of Imitation




Style/Substance Matrix



Additional Readings


About the Editor


Index