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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452924703321

Autore

Rice Jeff (Jeff R.)

Titolo

The rhetoric of cool : composition studies and new media / / Jeff Rice ; with a foreword by Gregory L. Ulmer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale : , : Southern Illinois University Press, , [2007]

©2007

ISBN

0-8093-8760-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 p.)

Disciplina

808/.0420285

Soggetti

English language - Rhetoric - Computer-assisted instruction

English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching

Cool (The English word)

Communication - Philosophy

Language and culture

Interactive multimedia

Electronic books.

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 (pages 169-179) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword: Elementary Cool; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Story of Composition Studies and Cool; 2. Chora; 3. Appropriation; 4. Juxtaposition; 5. Commutation; 6. Nonlinearity; 7. Imagery; Notes; Works Cited and Consulted; Index; Author Bio; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

The Rhetoric of Cool: Composition Studies and New Media offers a historical critique of composition studies' rebirth narrative, using that critique to propose a new rhetoric for new media work. Author Jeff Rice returns to critical moments during the rebirth of composition studies when the discipline chose not to emphasize technology, cultural studies, and visual writing, which are now fundamental to composition studies. Rice redefines these moments in order to invent a new electronic practice.            The Rhetoric of Cool addresses the disciplinary claim that com