an essay for the English profession on potentiality and singularity /
Janis Haswell, Richard Haswell.
Logan, Utah :
Utah State University Press,
2010.
1 online resource (279 pages) :
illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Authoring accepted -- Interchapter: potentiality and Alice Sheldon -- Potentiality and the teaching of English -- Potentiality and gendership -- Potentiality, gendership, and teacher response -- Potentiality, gendership, teacher response, and student voices -- Potentiality, reading, and George Yeats -- Potentiality, life-course, academic course, and unpredictability -- Interchapter: singularity and Alice Sheldon -- Singularity and the teaching of English -- Singularity and narrative: character, dignity, recentering -- Singular authorial offerings: lifestories, literacy narratives, and the shatterbelt -- Singularity, feminism, and the politics of difference and identity -- Singularity, self-loss, and radical postmodernism -- Singularity and diagnostics: disposements, interpretations, and lames -- Interchapter: authoring and Alice Sheldon -- Authoring neglected -- Envoi: hospitality and Alice Sheldon.
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The postmodern conviction that meaning is indeterminate and self is an illusion, though fascinating and defensible in theory, leaves a number of scholarly and pedagogical questions unsatisfied. Authoring - the phenomenological act or felt sense of creating a text - is "a remarkably black box," say Haswell and Haswell, yet it should be one of the central preoccupations of scholars in English studies. Not only can the study of authoring accommodate the "social turn" since postmodernism, they argue, but it accommodates as well conceptions of, and the lived exper.
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Authoring.
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College prose-- Evaluation.
English language-- Rhetoric-- Study and teaching (Higher)
English language-- Study and teaching (Higher)
Report writing-- Study and teaching (Higher)
College prose-- Evaluation.
English language-- Rhetoric-- Study and teaching (Higher)
English language-- Study and teaching (Higher)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Composition & Creative Writing.