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Genre and the invention of the writer : reconsidering the place of invention in composition / / Anis S. Bawarshi



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Autore: Bawarshi Anis S Visualizza persona
Titolo: Genre and the invention of the writer : reconsidering the place of invention in composition / / Anis S. Bawarshi Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Logan, Utah, : Utah State University Press, c2003
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (221 p.)
Disciplina: 808/.02
Soggetto topico: English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching
English language - Composition and exercises - Study and teaching
Invention (Rhetoric)
Literary form
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [186]-202) and index.
Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; PREFACE; 1 INTRODUCTION A Meditation on Beginnings; 2 THE GENRE FUNCTION; 3 INVENTING THE WRITER IN COMPOSITION STUDIES; 4 CONSTRUCTING DESIRE Genre and the Invention of Writing Subjects; 5 SITES OF INVENTION Genre and the Enactment of First-Year Writing; 6 RE-PLACING INVENTION IN COMPOSITION Reflections and Implications; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sommario/riassunto: In a focused and compelling discussion, Anis Bawarshi looks to genre theory for what it can contribute to a refined understanding of invention. In describing what he calls ""the genre function,"" he explores what is at stake for the study and teaching of writing to imagine invention as a way that writers locate themselves, via genres, within various positions and activities. He argues, in fact, that invention is a process in which writers are acted upon by genres as much as they act themselves. Such an approach naturally requires the composition scholar to re-place invention from the writ
Titolo autorizzato: Genre And The Invention Of The Writer  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-26700-4
9786613267009
0-87421-476-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910213827503321
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