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Record Nr.

UNINA9910973362303321

Autore

Phelps Louise Wetherbee <1940->

Titolo

Composition as a human science : contributions to the self-understanding of a discipline / / Louise Wetherbee Phelps

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-772352-7

1-4237-6445-5

1-60129-807-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

808/.00141

Soggetti

Rhetoric

Discourse analysis

Literacy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1991.

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: pages 243-259.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Part One: Constructing an Ecology of Composition -- 1 The Cultural Ground -- 2 The Idea of Composition as a Discipline -- Part Two: The Process of Reconstruction -- 3 Possibilities for a Critical Rhetoric -- 4 Imagining a Psychology of Composition -- 5 Literacy and the Limits of the Natural Attitude -- 6 The Dance of Discourse -- 7 Dialectics of Coherence -- 8 The Third Way: Paul Ricoeur and the Problem of Method -- Part Three: Application -- 9 Toward a Human Science Disciplined by Practical Wisdom -- Works Cited -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W.

Sommario/riassunto

Although the subject of composition has firmly established itself in secondary schools and universities as one worthy of study, philosophical premises on composition have yet to be discussed. This collection of essays draws together the different philosophical viewpoints on the matter.