The Rhetoric of Cool

by Rice, Jeff; Ulmer, Gregory L.

• ISBN13: 9780809327522
• ISBN10: 080932752X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-11
• Publisher: Southern Illinois Univ Pr

Summary

The Rhetoric of Cool: Composition Studies and New Mediaoffers a historical critique of composition studies' rebirth narrative, using that critique to propose a new rhetoric for new media work. Author Jeff Rice returns to critical moments during the rebirth of composition studies when the discipline chose not to emphasize technology, cultural studies, and visual writing, which are now fundamental to composition studies. Rice redefines these moments in order to invent a new electronic practice. The Rhetoric of Cooladdresses the disciplinary claim that composition studies underwent a rebirth in 1963. At that time, three writers reviewed technology, cultural studies, and visual writing outside composition studies and independently used the wordcoolto describe each position. Starting from these three positions, Rice focuses on chora, appropriation, commutation, juxtaposition, nonlinearity, and imageryrhetorical gestures conducive to new media work-- to construct the rhetoric of cool. An innovative work that approaches computers and writing issues from historical, critical, theoretical, and practical perspectives,The Rhetoric of Coolchallenges current understandings of writing and new media and proposes a rhetorical rather than an instrumental response for teaching writing in new media contexts.

Author Biography

Jeff Rice, an assistant professor of English at Wayne State University, is the author of Writing about Cool: Hypertext and Cultural Studies in the Computer Classroom and the co-editor of New Media/New Methods: The Turn From Literacy to Electracy.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Elementary Cool	p. IX
Acknowledgments	p. XV
Introduction	p. 1
The Story of Composition Studies and Cool	p. 11
Chora	p. 30
Appropriation	p. 47
Juxtaposition	p. 73
Commutation	p. 93
Nonlinearity	p. 111
Imagery	p. 133
Notes	p. 161
Works Cited and Consulted	p. 169
Index	p. 181
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