Personal Effects: The Social Character of Scholarly Writing

In Personal Effects, Holdstein and Bleich compile a volume that cuts across the grain of current orthodoxy. These editors and contributors argue that it is fundamental in humanistic scholarship to take account of the personal and collective experiences of scholars, researchers, critics, and teachers. They contend that humanistic inquiry cannot develop successfully at this time without reference to the varieties of subjective, intersubjective, and collective experience of teachers and researchers. In composition studies, they point out, an important strand of theory has continuously mined the personal experience of individual writers ( where they stand even in a destabilized sense of that idea). [S]uch substantive accounts of the \u27inner\u27 academic life provide appropriate and rich contexts for further study and analysis. With this volume, then, these scholars move us to explore the intersections of the social with subjectivity, with voice, ideology, and culture, and to consider the roles of these in the work of academics who study writing and literature. Taken together, the essays in this collection carry forward the idea that the personal, the candidly subjective and intersubjective, must be part of the subject of study in humanities scholarship. They propose an understanding of the personal in scholarship that is more helpful because more clearly anchored in human experience.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/usupress_pubs/1131/thumbnail.jp

ENGL 845 Graduate Seminar: English Literature The Short Story in England: Towards the New Wave

Course syllabus for ENGL 845 Graduate Seminar: English Literature The Short Story in England: Towards the New Wave Course description: Studies a selected period, theme, or author of English Literature. Literature of a period is related to historical, political, social, and religious currents of the times

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ENGL 830 Graduate Seminar: Rhetorical/Critical Theory - Critical Canons, Canonical Criticisms

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ENGL 690 Professional Seminar for Teachers of Writing

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ENGL 830 Graduate Seminar: Rhetorical/Critical Theory - Critical Canons, Canonical Criticisms

Course syllabus for ENGL 830 Graduate Seminar: Rhetorical/Critical Theory - Critical Canons, Canonical Criticisms Course description: Focuses on extensive readings in rhetorical and/or critical theory

Personal Effects: The Social Character of Scholarly Writing

In Personal Effects, Holdstein and Bleich compile a volume that cuts across the grain of current orthodoxy. These editors and contributors argue that it is fundamental in humanistic scholarship to take account of the personal and collective experiences of scholars, researchers, critics, and teachers. They contend that humanistic inquiry cannot develop successfully at this time without reference to the varieties of subjective, intersubjective, and collective experience of teachers and researchers. In composition studies, they point out, an important strand of theory has continuously mined the personal experience of individual writers ( where they stand even in a destabilized sense of that idea). [S]uch substantive accounts of the \u27inner\u27 academic life provide appropriate and rich contexts for further study and analysis. With this volume, then, these scholars move us to explore the intersections of the social with subjectivity, with voice, ideology, and culture, and to consider the roles of these in the work of academics who study writing and literature. Taken together, the essays in this collection carry forward the idea that the personal, the candidly subjective and intersubjective, must be part of the subject of study in humanities scholarship. They propose an understanding of the personal in scholarship that is more helpful because more clearly anchored in human experience.https://opus.govst.edu/faculty_books/1048/thumbnail.jp

Compelling Confessions The Politics of Personal Disclosure

Compelling Confessions is a collection of essays whose shared purpose is to offer an accessible interdisciplinary exploration of the social dynamics behind confessional discourse. As the contributors to this volume demonstrate, confession is ubiquitous in contemporary culture, not only within psychological or therapeutic frameworks or literary analysis, but also in internet discussion groups, in the criminal justice system, in political rhetoric, in so-called 'reality' and interview-style television programming, in writing pedagogy and, increasingly, in the testimonial strain observable in contemporary scholarship.Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword: Confession as an Uncontrolled Substance: An Introduction -- Scripted Subjectivity: The Politics of Personal Disclosure -- Personal Disclosure and Public Discourse in Creative Nonfiction -- Escaping the Panopticon: Vision and Visibility in the Memoirs of Elizabeth Wurtzel -- Confessional Poetry and National Identity: John Berryman's Self as Nation -- Oprah on the Couch: Franzen, Frey, Foucault, and the Book Club Confessions -- Understanding the False-Confession Phenomenon -- Rhetoric's Inescapable Grasp: Strategic Disclosure and the Moment of Truth -- Waiting Tables, Writing Lives: The ''Truth'' of Personal Experience in Students' Academic Writing -- From Confession to Testimony: Refiguring Trauma in the Classroom -- Sister Confessor: The Selection and Shaping of Testimonies in Sistren's Bellywoman Bangarang and Lionheart Gal -- The Vagina Posse: Confessional Community in Online Infertility Journals -- Notes on ContributorsCompelling Confessions is a collection of essays whose shared purpose is to offer an accessible interdisciplinary exploration of the social dynamics behind confessional discourse. As the contributors to this volume demonstrate, confession is ubiquitous in contemporary culture, not only within psychological or therapeutic frameworks or literary analysis, but also in internet discussion groups, in the criminal justice system, in political rhetoric, in so-called 'reality' and interview-style television programming, in writing pedagogy and, increasingly, in the testimonial strain observable in contemporary scholarship.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries