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Overview"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 experience of, personal potentiality and singularity. Without abandoning the value of postmodern perspectives, Haswell and Haswell use their own perspective of authorial potentiality and singularity to reconsider staple English-studies concerns such as gender, evaluation, voice, character, literacy, feminism, self, interpretation, assessment, signature, and taste. The essay is unique as well in the way that its authors embrace often competing realms of English studies, drawing examples and arguments equally from literary and compositionist research. In the process, the Haswells have created a Big Idea book, and a critique of the field. Their point is clear: the singular person/mysterious black box/author merits deeper consideration than we have given it, and the book's crafted and woven explorations provide the intellectual tools to move beyond both political divisions and theoretical impasses." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Janis Haswell , Richard HaswellPublisher: Utah State University Press Imprint: Utah State University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.632kg ISBN: 9780874217711ISBN 10: 0874217717 Pages: 290 Publication Date: 01 March 2010 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsThis is a very smart monograph, and a provocative one, with a powerful essay quality as it weaves back and forth between composition and literature perspectives. Surely there will be contention highly productive contention. But I was just delighted to be pushed around by this book. Christiane Donahue, Dartmouth This is a very smart monograph, and a provocative one, with a powerful essay quality as it weaves back and forth between composition and literature perspectives. Surely there will be contention--highly productive contention. But I was just delighted to be pushed around by this book. Christiane Donahue, Dartmouth This is a very smart monograph, and a provocative one, with a powerful essay quality as it weaves back and forth between composition and literature perspectives. Surely there will be contention--highly productive contention. But I was just delighted to be pushed around by this book.Christiane Donahue, Dartmouth Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |