LEADER 04071nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910958181703321 005 20251117090519.0 010 $a1-280-69772-5 010 $a9786613674685 010 $a0-8093-8788-3 035 $a(CKB)2550000000039614 035 $a(OCoLC)742517205 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10480831 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000540214 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11334568 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000540214 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10596654 035 $a(PQKB)11135149 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1354546 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse3616 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1354546 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10480831 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL367468 035 $a(OCoLC)817089197 035 $a(BIP)46352341 035 $a(BIP)32502178 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000039614 100 $a20100923d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPostcomposition /$fSidney I. Dobrin 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCarbondale $cSouthern Illinois University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (265 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-8093-3041-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover -- Book Title -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: On the Occasion of Becoming Postcomposition -- 1. Disrupting Composition Studies -- 2. The Space of Writing -- 3. Beyond the Subject of Composition Studies -- 4. Beyond the Administration of Subjects -- 5. Ecocomposition Postcomposition -- 6. The Edge of Chaos -- 7. Pedagogy -- Postscript: On the Very Idea of Post-ness -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Author Bio -- Back Cover. 330 $aLeading a burgeoning self-critical moment in composition studies and writing program administration, Postcomposition is a fundamental reconsideration of the field that attempts to shift the focus away from pedagogy and writing subjects and toward writing itself. In this forceful and reasoned critique of many of the primary tenets and widely accepted institutional structures of composition studies, Sidney I. Dobrin delivers a series of shocks to the system meant to disrupt the pedagogical imperative and move beyond the existing limits of the discipline. Dobrin evaluates the current state of composition studies, underscoring the difference between composition and writing and arguing that the field's focus on the administration of writing students and its historically imposed prohibition on theory greatly limit what can be understood about writing. Instead he envisions a more significant approach to writing, one that questions the field's conservative allegiance to subject and administration and reconsiders writing as spatial and ecological. Using concepts from ecocomposition, spatial theory, network theory, complexity theory, and systems theory, Postcomposition lays the groundwork for a networked theory of writing, and advocates the abandonment of administration as a useful part of the field. He also challenges the usefulness of rhetoric in writing studies, showing how writing exceeds rhetoric. Postcomposition is a detailed consideration of how posthumanism affects the field's understanding of subjectivity. It also tears at the seams of the "contingent labor problem." As he articulates his own frustrations with the conservatism of composition studies and builds on previous critiques of the discipline, Dobrin stages a courageous-and inevitably polemical-intellectual challenge to the entrenched ideas and assumptions that have defined composition studies. 606 $aEnglish language$xRhetoric$xStudy and teaching 615 0$aEnglish language$xRhetoric$xStudy and teaching. 676 $a808/.042071 700 $aDobrin$b Sidney I.$f1967-$01083158 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910958181703321 996 $aPostcomposition$94473441 997 $aUNINA