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Bawarshi Anis S
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Titolo: |
Genre and the invention of the writer : reconsidering the place of invention in composition / / Anis S. Bawarshi
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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 ![]() |
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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