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Author: Bruce Horner
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Imprint: Southern Illinois University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.70cm
, Length: 22.60cm
Weight: 0.373kg
ISBN: 9780809334506
ISBN 10: 080933450
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 22 February 2016
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
Rewriting Composition is a major reckoning with the field, a deep interrogation of composition s own terms of understanding.The rigor of its cultural materialist approach has a startling effect, treating the familiar in new and unsettling ways.This hasn t happened in a long time. John Trimbur, Emerson College Read this book to understand the self-defeating abstractions we have accepted as truths in our composition work.Horner powerfully demonstrates an escape route from business as usual by reframing composition as the dynamic, always translingual work that we and our students do. Most vitally, read his book to understand how recognizing difference as the norm of language practice can help us redefine composition as the work people do with written language, negotiating meaning and producing knowledge in social locations in the composition classroom especially. Jeanne Gunner, vice chancellor and professor of English, Chapman University
Rewriting Composition is a major reckoning with the field, a deep interrogation of composition's own terms of understanding. The rigor of its cultural materialist approach has a startling effect, treating the familiar in new and unsettling ways. This hasn't happened in a long time. --John Trimbur, Emerson College Read this book to understand the self-defeating abstractions we have accepted as truths in our composition work. Horner powerfully demonstrates an escape route from 'business as usual' by reframing composition as the dynamic, always translingual work that we and our students do. Most vitally, read his book to understand how recognizing difference as the norm of language practice can help us redefine composition as the work people do with written language, negotiating meaning and producing knowledge in social locations--in the composition classroom especially. --Jeanne Gunner, vice chancellor and professor of English, Chapman University
Author Information
Bruce Horner is Endowed Chair of Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Louisville. His previous books include Terms of Work for Composition: A Materialist Critique, recipient of the 2001 W. Ross Winterowd Award for the most outstanding book on composition theory, and Writing Conventions, coauthored with MinZhan Lu. Horner is also coeditor of CrossLanguage Relations in Composition, winner of the Conference on College Composition and Communication Outstanding Book Award in 2012, and Reworking English in Rhetoric and Composition: Global Interrogations, Local Interventions.
