03419nam 2200721 a 450 991021382770332120200520144314.097866132668979781283266895128326689X97808742146350874214637(CKB)111056486848422(EBL)287117(OCoLC)173982263(SSID)ssj0000147632(PQKBManifestationID)11160825(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000147632(PQKBWorkID)10018118(PQKB)11415232(MiAaPQ)EBC3442769(OCoLC)52212636(MdBmJHUP)muse16340(MiAaPQ)EBC287117(Au-PeEL)EBL287117(Perlego)2041109(EXLCZ)9911105648684842220020116d2002 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEnglish composition as a happening /Geoffrey SircLogan, Utah Utah State University Pressc20021 online resource (350 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780874214352 0874214351 Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-309) and index.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 AUTHORWhat 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 properEnglish languageRhetoricStudy and teachingPsychological aspectsEnglish languageRhetoricStudy and teachingSocial aspectsAcademic writingStudy and teachingPsychological aspectsAcademic writingStudy and teachingSocial aspectsLanguage and cultureHappenings (Art)English languageRhetoricStudy and teachingPsychological aspects.English languageRhetoricStudy and teachingSocial aspects.Academic writingStudy and teachingPsychological aspects.Academic writingStudy and teachingSocial aspects.Language and culture.Happenings (Art)808/.042/071Sirc Geoffrey Michael1025499MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910213827703321English Composition As A Happening2438476UNINA