Out of Style Reanimating Stylistic Study in Composition and Rhetoric
Paul Butler applauds the emerging interest in the study of style among scholars of rhetoric and composition, arguing that the loss of stylistics from composition in recent decades left it alive only in the popular imagination as a set of grammar conventions. Butler's goal in Out of Style is to...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Logan, Utah :
Utah State University Press
2008.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009430341206719 |
| Summary: | Paul Butler applauds the emerging interest in the study of style among scholars of rhetoric and composition, arguing that the loss of stylistics from composition in recent decades left it alive only in the popular imagination as a set of grammar conventions. Butler's goal in Out of Style is to articulate style as a vital and productive source of invention, and to redefine its importance for current research, theory, and pedagogy. Scholars in composition know that the ideas about writing most common in the discourse of public intellectuals are egregiously backward. Without a |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (197 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-175) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780874216806 |
| Access: | Open Access |
