Description |
1 online resource (xi, 207 pages) |
|
text txt rdacontent |
|
computer c rdamedia |
|
online resource cr rdacarrier |
|
data file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-202) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction: A Meditation on Beginnings -- The Genre Function -- Inventing the Writer in Composition Studies -- Constructing Desire: Genre and the Invention of Writing Subjects -- Sites of Invention: Genre and the Enactment of First-Year Writing -- Re-Placing Invention in Composition: Reflections and Implications. |
Summary |
In a focused and compelling discussion, Anis Bawarshi looks to genre theory for what it can contribute to a refined understanding of invention. In describing what he calls "the genre function," he explores what is at stake for the study and teaching of writing to imagine invention as a way that writers locate themselves, via genres, within various positions and activities. He argues, in fact, that invention is a process in which writers are acted upon by genres as much as they act themselves. Such an approach naturally requires the composition scholar to re-place invention from the w |
Note |
Print version record. |
Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
Language |
English. |
Access |
Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK). WlAbNL |
Terms Of Use |
Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
Subject |
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching.
|
|
English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching.
|
|
Invention (Rhetoric)
|
|
Literary form.
|
|
Invention (Rhétorique)
|
|
Genres littéraires.
|
|
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Authorship.
|
|
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
|
|
English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching
|
|
English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching
|
|
Invention (Rhetoric)
|
|
Literary form
|
In: |
Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR |
Other Form: |
Print version: Bawarshi, Anis S. Genre and the invention of the writer. Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©2003 0874215544 (DLC) 2002153375 (OCoLC)50960743 |
ISBN |
0874214769 (electronic bk.) |
|
9780874214765 (electronic bk.) |
|
6613267007 |
|
9786613267009 |
|
0874215544 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
|
9780874215540 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
|
1283267004 |
|
9781283267007 |
Standard No. |
AU@ 000055605297 |
|
GBVCP 1008648361 |
|
UKMGB 020143642 |
|