Critical Expressivism: Theory and Practice in the Composition Classroom

ISBN-13: 9781602356528 Publisher: Parlor Pr Publication date: 05/23/2016 Pages: 316 Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.88(d) PERSPECTIVES ON WRITING | Series Editor, SUSAN H. MCLEOD | CRITICAL EXPRESSIVISM: THEORY AND PRACTICE IN THE COMPOSITION CLASSROOM is an ambitious attempt to re-appropriate intellectual territory that has more often been charted by its detractors than by its proponents. Indeed, as Peter Elbow observes in his contribution to this volume, "As far as I can tell, the term 'expressivist' was coined and used only by people who wanted a word for people they disapproved of and wanted to discredit." The editors and contributors to this collection invite readers to join them in a new conversation, one informed by "a belief that the term expressivism continues to have a vitally important function in our field." | TARA ROEDER is an Associate Professor with the Institute for Writing Studies at St. John's University. She earned her doctorate in English from the CUNY Gr