Experimental writing in composition : aesthetics and pedagogies / Patricia Suzanne Sullivan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sullivan, Patricia Suzanne.

Series:

Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher).

English language.

Literature, Experimental.

Physical Description:

x, 188 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012.

Summary:

"From the outset, experimental writing has been viewed as a means to afford a more creative space for students to express individuality, underrepresented social realities, and criticisms of dominant socio-political discourses and their institutions. Yet, the recent trend toward multimedia texts has left many composition instructors with little basis from which to assess these new forms and to formulate pedagogies. In this original study, Patricia Suzanne Sullivan provides a critical history of experimental writing theory and its aesthetic foundations and demonstrates their application to current multimodal writing. Sullivan unpacks the work of major scholars in composition and rhetoric and their theories on aesthetics, particularly avant-gardism. She also relates the dialectics that shape these aesthetics and sheds new light on both the positive and negative aspects of experimental writing and its attempts to redefine the writing disciplines. Additionally, she shows how current debates over the value of multimedia texts echo earlier arguments that pitted experimental writing against traditional models. Sullivan further articulates the ways that multimedia is and isn't changing composition pedagogies, and provides insights into resolving these tensions. "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Experimental Expressivism: Autonomy and Alienation 17

Chapter 2 Experimental Writing and the Politics of Academic Discourse: Composition's Institutions 45

Chapter 3 The Crisis of Judgment in Composition: Evaluating Experimental Student Writing 76

Chapter 4 Collage: Pedagogies, Aesthetics, and Reading Students' Texts 103

Chapter 5 Postscript: Toward a Multimodal Composition 147.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822962083

082296208X

OCLC:

794361909