Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures: Refiguring College English Studies

by James A. Berlin

Overview

Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures is James Berlin's most comprehensive effort to refigure the field of English Studies. Here, in his last book, Berlin both historically situates and recovers for today the tools and insights of rhetoric-displaced and marginalized, he argues, by the allegedly disinterested study of aesthetic texts in the college English department. Berlin sees rhetoric as offering a unique perspective on the current disciplinary crisis, complementing the challenging perspectives offered by postmodern literary theory and cultural studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780972477253
Publisher:	Parlor Press, LLC
Publication date:	03/01/2003
Series:	Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	268
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	14 Years

About the Author

James A. Berlin began his teaching career in elementary schools in Flint and Detroit, Michigan. After earning a Ph.D. in Victorian litera-ture at the University of Michigan, he became assistant professor of composition at Wichita State University. While there, he served as first director of the Kansas Writing Project, an affiliate of the National Writing Project. He next taught at the University of Cincinnati, where he was director of freshman English.