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Examines the discipline of English in North American universities in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries with special attention directed toward the relationship between Rhetoric and Composition and literary theory.

Table of Contents

Introduction, 1
1. On the Use and Abuse of Rhetoric in Composition and Theory, 23
2. Between Standardization and Serialization: Kenneth Burke, Fredric Jameson, and Radical Criticism in the Post-Fordist Era, 60
3. Mapping the Archival Turn in English Studies, 92
4. Toward an Aesthetics without Literature, 131
5. New Things, Old Things: Reading the Latourian Turn Symptomatically, 156
Coda: English Studies and the Uncertain Future, 193
Acknowledgments, 203
Notes, 205
Bibliography, 221
Index, 241

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      Publisher: Fordham University Press
      Publication Date: 08/01/2019
      ISBN13: 9780823282456, 978-0823282456
      ISBN10: 0823282457
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      Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics Higher education, tertiary education

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Examines the discipline of English in North American universities in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries with special attention directed toward the relationship between Rhetoric and Composition and literary theory.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction, 1
      1. On the Use and Abuse of Rhetoric in Composition and Theory, 23
      2. Between Standardization and Serialization: Kenneth Burke, Fredric Jameson, and Radical Criticism in the Post-Fordist Era, 60
      3. Mapping the Archival Turn in English Studies, 92
      4. Toward an Aesthetics without Literature, 131
      5. New Things, Old Things: Reading the Latourian Turn Symptomatically, 156
      Coda: English Studies and the Uncertain Future, 193
      Acknowledgments, 203
      Notes, 205
      Bibliography, 221
      Index, 241

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