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Autore |
Bawarshi Anis S |
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Titolo |
Genre And The Invention Of The Writer : Reconsidering the Place of Invention in Composition / / Anis S. Bawarshi |
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Logan, Utah : , : Utah State University Press, , 2003 |
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©2003 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-26700-4 |
9786613267009 |
0-87421-476-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (221 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Literary form |
Invention (Rhetoric) |
English language - Composition and exercises - Study and teaching |
English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [186]-202) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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CONTENTS; PREFACE; 1 INTRODUCTION A Meditation on Beginnings; 2 THE GENRE FUNCTION; 3 INVENTING THE WRITER IN COMPOSITION STUDIES; 4 CONSTRUCTING DESIRE Genre and the Invention of Writing Subjects; 5 SITES OF INVENTION Genre and the Enactment of First-Year Writing; 6 RE-PLACING INVENTION IN COMPOSITION Reflections and Implications; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In a focused and compelling discussion, Anis Bawarshi looks to genre theory for what it can contribute to a refined understanding of invention. In describing what he calls ""the genre function,"" he explores what is at stake for the study and teaching of writing to imagine invention as a way that writers locate themselves, via genres, within various positions and activities. He argues, in fact, that invention is a process in which writers are acted upon by genres as much as they act themselves. Such an approach naturally requires the composition |
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