Out of Style Reanimating Stylistic Study in Composition and Rhetoric

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Butler, Paul, 1956- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press 2008.
Edición:1st ed
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Sumario: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
Notas:Description based upon print version of record.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (197 p.)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-175) and index.
ISBN:9780874216806
Acceso:Open Access