Fragments of Rationality
eBook - PDF

Fragments of Rationality

Postmodernity and the Subject of Composition

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Fragments of Rationality

Postmodernity and the Subject of Composition

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. 1. In the Turbulence of Theory
  6. 2. The Changing Political Landscape of Composition Studies
  7. 3. The Linguistic Agent as Subject
  8. 4. Ideologies of the Self in Writing Evaluation
  9. 5. Coherent Contradictions: The Conflicting Rhetoric of Writing Textbooks
  10. 6. The Achieved Utopia of the Networked Classroom
  11. 7. Student Writers at the End of History?
  12. 8. The Ethical Subject
  13. Notes
  14. Sources
  15. Index