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Overview"When it was first published in 1989, Susan Miller's Rescuing the Subject: A Critical Introduction to Rhetoric and the Writer established a landmark pedagogical approach to composition based on the importance of the writer and the act of writing in the history of rhetoric. Widely used as an introduction to rhetoric and composition theory for graduate students, the volume was the first winner of the W. Ross Winterowd Award from JAC and is still one of the most frequently cited books in the field. This first paperback edition includes a new introductory chapter in which Miller addresses changes in the field since the first edition, outlines new research, and surveys positions she no longer supports. A new foreword by Thomas P. Miller assesses the proven impact of Rescuing the Subject on the field of rhetoric and composition. Situating modern composition theory in the historical context of rhetoric, Miller notes that throughout the eighteenth century, rhetoric referred to oral, not written, discourse. By contrast, her history of rhetoric contends oral and written discourse were related from the beginning. Taking a thematic rather than chronological approach, she shows how actual acts of writing comment on both rhetoric and composition. Miller also asserts that contemporary composition study is the necessary cultural outcome of changing conditions for producing discourse, describing the history of rhetoric as the gradual and unstable relocation of discourse in conventions that only written language can create. She maintains teachers and historians of rhetoric must recognize that the contemporary writing they analyze and teach demands their attention to a ""textual rhetoric"" that allows theorizing the writer as always symbolically a student of situated meanings." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Susan Miller , Thomas P. MillerPublisher: Southern Illinois University Press Imprint: Southern Illinois University Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.300kg ISBN: 9780809326006ISBN 10: 0809326000 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 30 November 2004 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews[D]aring, inventive, and badly needed. What is really rescued here... is the subject of composition studies. -JAC """[D]aring, inventive, and badly needed. What is really rescued here... is the subject of composition studies.""-JAC""" Author InformationSusan Miller is a professor of English at the University of Utah. Her previous books include Textual Carnivals: The Politics of Composition, winner of the MLA's Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize, the NCTE/CCCC Outstanding Book Award, and the W. Ross Winterowd Award, and Assuming the Positions: Cultural Pedagogy and the Politics of Ordinary Writing, which received the NCTE/CCCC Outstanding Book Award and was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title, and other titles. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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