The Kinneavy Papers: Theory and the Study of Discourse

by Worsham, Lynn; Dobrin, Sidney I.; Olson, Gary A.; Worsham, Lynn

• ISBN13: 9780791446928
• ISBN10: 0791446921
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Documenting an era of dramatic change and growth in the sophistication of scholarship in rhetoric and composition studies, this book includes essays which find in contemporary theory the language to ask new questions, to reframe existing problems, and to move beyond current impasses in thought and action. The different perspectives offer a stand against current backlash theory, as seen in the reassertion of expressivism and creative writing as the antidote to the difficulties wrought by too much theorizing. All the essays included are winners of the James L. Kinneavy Award and celebrate the award's tenth anniversary as well as its founder, one of the discipline's most learned and beloved scholars.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Foreword	xiii
Lester Faigley
Introduction	xvii
Lynn Worsham
Sidney I. Dobrin
Gary A. Olson
Part 1: Pedagogical Theory
What Does It Mean to Learn?: William Bennett, the Educational Testing Service, and a Praxis of the Sublime	3	(24)
Richard E. Miller
Dichotomy, Consubstantiality, Technical Writing, Literary Theory: The Double Orthodox Curse	27	(20)
Jasper Neel
Writing in the Graduate Curriculum: Literary Criticism as Composition	47	(20)
Patricia A. Sullivan
Worlds in the Making: The Literacy Project as Potential Space	67	(28)
Nancy Welch
Part 2: Philosophical Issues
Interrupting the Conversation: The Constructionist Dialogue in Composition	95	(24)
Joseph Petraglia
Becoming Aware of the Myth of Presence	119	(14)
Reed Way Dasenbrock
Hall of Mirrors: Anti-Foundationalist Theory and the Teaching of Writing	133	(22)
David W. Smit
Rhetoric and Hermeneutics: Composition, Invention, and Literature	155	(28)
George L. Pullman
Part 3: Cultural Studies and Composition
After Progressivism: Modern Composition, Institutional Service, and Cultural Studies	183	(26)
Michael Murphy
Social-Process Rhetorical Inquiry: Cultural Studies Methodologies for Critical Writing about Advertisements	209	(24)
Bruce McComiskey
Articulation Theory and the Problem of Determination: A Reading of Lives on the Boundary	233	(22)
John Trimbur
Meditations upon Hypertext: A Rhetorethics for Cyborgs	255	(24)
Pamela K. Gilbert
Part 4: Special Issues in Composition
Confronting the ``Essential'' Problem: Reconnecting Feminist Theory and Pedagogy	279	(30)
Joy S. Ritchie
Genders of Writing	309	(18)
David Bleich
Beside Ourselves: Rhetoric and Representation in Postcolonial Feminist Writing	327	(26)
Susan C. Jarratt
Defining Rhetoric---and Us: A Meditation on Burke's Definitions	353	(16)
Richard M. Coe
Defining Advanced Composition: Contributions from the History of Rhetoric	369	(12)
William A. Covino
Afterword: The Legacy of James L. Kinneavy	381	(4)
Phillip Sipiora
Index	385