Title Experimental writing in composition : aesthetics and pedagogies / Patricia Suzanne Sullivan

Published Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2012] ©2012

Click on the following:
EBSCO eBooks
ProQuest Ebook Central

Copies

Description 1 online resource (201 pages) Series Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture. Contents Experimental Expressivism : Autonomy and Alienation -- Experimental Writing and the Politics of Academic Discourse : Composition's Institutions -- The Crisis of Judgment in Composition : Evaluating Experimental Student Writing -- Collage : Pedagogies, Aesthetics, and Reading Students' Texts -- Postscript : Toward a Multimodal Composition Summary From the outset, experimental writing has been viewed as a means to afford a more creative space for students to express individuality, underrepresented social realities, and criticisms of dominant socio-political discourses and their institutions. Yet, the recent trend toward multimedia texts has left many composition instructors with little basis from which to assess these new forms and to formulate pedagogies. In this book, the author provides a critical history of experimental writing theory and its aesthetic foundations and demonstrates their application to current multimodal writing. The author unpacks the work of major scholars in composition and rhetoric and their theories on aesthetics, particularly avant-gardism. She also relates the dialectics that shape these aesthetics and sheds light on both the positive and negative aspects of experimental writing and its attempts to redefine the writing disciplines. Additionally, she shows how current debates over the value of multimedia texts echo earlier arguments that pitted experimental writing against traditional models. The author further articulates the ways that multimedia is and isn't changing composition pedagogies, and provides insights into resolving these tensions Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching (Higher) Literature, Experimental. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric. REFERENCE -- Writing Skills. English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching (Higher) Literature, Experimental Form Electronic book ISBN 9780822978152 0822978156 1306555353 9781306555357

  Permalink