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Author Sirc, Geoffrey Michael.

Title English composition as a happening / Geoffrey Sirc
Published Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©2002
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Description 1 online resource (318 pages, 23 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents The still-unbuilt hacienda -- "What is composition ...?" after Duchamp -- The American action writers -- Scenes from late sixties composition -- Writing classroom as A & P parking lot -- Never mind the tagmemics, where's the Sex pistols? -- English composition as a happening II -- Bonus track : funeral ceremony for the anti-procès II
Summary What happened to the bold, kicky promise of writing instruction in the 1960s? The current conservative trend in composition is analyzed allegorically by Geoffrey Sirc in this book-length homage to Charles Deemer's 1967 article, in which the theories and practices of Happenings artists (multi-disciplinary performance pioneers) were used to invigorate college writing
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-309) and index
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Subject English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Psychological aspects
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Social aspects
Academic writing -- Study and teaching -- Psychological aspects
Academic writing -- Study and teaching -- Social aspects
Language and culture.
Happenings (Art)
happenings.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Psychological aspects
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Social aspects
Happenings (Art)
Language and culture
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0874214637
9780874214635
128326689X
9781283266895
9786613266897
6613266892