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Record Nr.

UNINA9910213827703321

Autore

Sirc Geoffrey Michael

Titolo

English composition as a happening / Geoffrey Sirc

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Logan, Utah : , : Utah State University Press, , 2002

©2002

ISBN

1-283-26689-X

9786613266897

0-87421-463-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 p.)

Disciplina

808/.042/071

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-309) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



through the material and theoretical concerns of such pre- and post-Happenings influences as Duchamp and Pollock, situationists and punks, as well as many of the Happenings artists proper