Out of Style Reanimating Stylistic Study in Composition and Rhetoric / Paul Butler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Butler, Paul, 1956-

Contributor:

This book is freely available in digital formats through the Utah State University Library Digital Commons., funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric.

Language and languages--Style.

Language and languages.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (197 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Paul Butler applauds the emerging interest in the study of style among scholars of rhetoric and composition, arguing that the loss of stylistics from composition in recent decades left it alive only in the popular imagination as a set of grammar conventions. Butler's goal in Out of Style is to articulate style as a vital and productive source of invention, and to redefine its importance for current research, theory, and pedagogy. Scholars in composition know that the ideas about writing most common in the discourse of public intellectuals are egregiously backward. Without a

Contents:

Introduction: reanimating style in composition and rhetoric

Historical developments: relevant stylistic history and theory

Our of style: reclaiming an "inventional" style in composition

Style in the diaspora of composition studies

Style and the public intellectual: rethinking composition in the public sphere

Back in style: style and the future of composition studies.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-175) and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

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ISBN:

9780874216806

087421680X

OCLC:

476175514

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access