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Sirc Geoffrey Michael |
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Titolo |
English composition as a happening / Geoffrey Sirc |
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Logan, Utah : , : Utah State University Press, , 2002 |
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©2002 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-26689-X |
9786613266897 |
0-87421-463-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (350 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Happenings (Art) |
Language and culture |
Academic writing - Study and teaching - Social aspects |
Academic writing - Study and teaching - Psychological aspects |
English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching - Social aspects |
English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching - Psychological aspects |
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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. [295]-309) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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CONTENTS; 0 THE STILL-UNBUILT HACIENDA; 1 "WHAT IS COMPOSITION . . . ?" AFTER DUCHAMP (Notes Toward a General Teleintertext); 2 THE AMERICAN ACTION WRITERS; 3 SCENES FROM LATE SIXTIES COMPOSITION; 4 WRITING CLASSROOM AS A & P PARKING LOT; 5 NEVER MIND THE TAGMEMICS, WHERE'S THE SEX PISTOLS?; 6 ENGLISH COMPOSITION AS A HAPPENING II; REFERENCES; Bonus Track FUNERAL CEREMONY OF THE ANTI-PROCÈS II A happening for CCCC; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. Sirc takes up Deemer's inquiry, moving |
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