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

• Autore: Bawarshi Anis S
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II