Authoring: An Essay for the English Profession on Potentiality and Singularity
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.
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Authoring: An Essay for the English Profession on Potentiality and Singularity
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.
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Authoring: An Essay for the English Profession on Potentiality and Singularity

Authoring: An Essay for the English Profession on Potentiality and Singularity

Authoring: An Essay for the English Profession on Potentiality and Singularity

Authoring: An Essay for the English Profession on Potentiality and Singularity

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780874217728
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Publication date: 03/01/2010
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 279
File size: 1 MB

Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: English Studies and Black Boxes 1. Authoring Accepted Interchapter: Potentiality and Alice Sheldon 2. Potentiality and the Teaching of English 3. Potentiality and Gendership 4 Potentiality, Gendership, and Teacher Response 5. Potentiality, Gendership, Teacher Response, and Student Voices 6. Potentiality, Reading, and George Yeats 7. Potentiality, Life-Course, Academic Course, and Unpredictability Interchapter: Singularity and Alice Sheldon 8. Singularity and the Teaching of English 9. Singularity and Narrative: Character, Dignity, Recentering 10. Singular Authorial Offerings: Lifestories, Literacy Narratives, and the Shatterbelt 11. Singularity, Feminism, and the Politics of Difference and Identity 12. Singularity, Self-Loss, and Radical Postmodernism 13. Singularity and Diagnostics: Disposements, Interpretations, and Lames Interchapter: Authoring and Alice Sheldon 14 Authoring Neglected Envoi: Hospitality and Alice Sheldon References Index About the Authors
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