Counter-History of Composition Toward Methodologies of Complexity

Name: Counter-History of Composition Toward Methodologies of Complexity
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ISBN: 9780822959731

ISBN-10: 0822959739

ISBN-13: 9780822959731

Edition: 2007

Authors: Byron Hawk

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A Counter-History of Compositioncontests 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 analysis ranging from classical Greek rhetoric to contemporary complexity theory, Hawk defines three…

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List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date: 11/20/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.990

Byron Hawk is assistant professor of English at George Mason University.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: From Vitalism to Complexity



Mapping Rhetoric and Composition



Cartography and Forgetting



Remapping Method



A Short Counter-History



Technology-Complexity-Methodology



Toward Inventive Composition Pedagogies


Afterword: Toward a Counter-Historiography


Notes


Bibliography


Index