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Fragments of Rationality : Postmodernity and the Subject of Composition / Lester Faigley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Faigley, Lester, 1947-
- Series:
- Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.
- Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Postmodernism.
- Report writing--Study and teaching.
- Report writing.
- English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.
- English language.
- English language--Composition and exercises--Study and teaching.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (302 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [1992]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In an insightful assessment of the study and teaching of writing against the larger theoretical, political, and technological upheavals of the past thirty years, Fragments of Rationality questions why composition studies has been less affected by postmodern theory than other humanities and social science disciplines.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. In the Turbulence of Theory
- 2. The Changing Political Landscape of Composition Studies
- 3. The Linguistic Agent as Subject
- 4. Ideologies of the Self in Writing Evaluation
- 5. Coherent Contradictions: The Conflicting Rhetoric of Writing Textbooks
- 6. The Achieved Utopia of the Networked Classroom
- 7. Student Writers at the End of History?
- 8. The Ethical Subject
- Notes
- Sources
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-277) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822971566
- 0822971569
- OCLC:
- 887803665
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