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| ISBN: | 9780822978152
0822978156
1306555353
9781306555357
9780822962083
082296208X
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | "From the outset, experimental writing has been viewed as a means to afford a more creative space for students to express individuality, underrepresented social realities, and criticisms of dominant socio-political discourses and their institutions. Yet, the recent trend toward multimedia texts has left many composition instructors with little basis from which to assess these new forms and to formulate pedagogies. In this original study, Patricia Suzanne Sullivan provides a critical history of experimental writing theory and its aesthetic foundations and demonstrates their application to current multimodal writing. Sullivan unpacks the work of major scholars in composition and rhetoric and their theories on aesthetics, particularly avant-gardism. She also relates the dialectics that shape these aesthetics and sheds new light on both the positive and negative aspects of experimental writing and its attempts to redefine the writing disciplines. Additionally, she sho.
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| Other form: | Print version: Sullivan, Patricia Suzanne. Experimental writing in composition : aesthetics and pedagogies. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2012 x, 188 pages Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture. 9780822962083
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