Resounding the Rhetorical: Composition as a Quasi-Object

Resounding the Rhetorical: Composition as a Quasi-Object

by Byron Hawk
Resounding the Rhetorical: Composition as a Quasi-Object

Resounding the Rhetorical: Composition as a Quasi-Object

by Byron Hawk

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Overview

Resounding the Rhetorical offers an original critical and theoretical examination of composition as a quasi-object. As composition flourishes in multiple media (digital, sonic, visual, etc.), Byron Hawk seeks to connect new materialism with current composition scholarship and critical theory. Using sound and music as his examples, he demonstrates how a quasi-object can and does materialize for communicative and affective expression, and becomes a useful mechanism for the study and execution of composition as a discipline. Through careful readings of Serres, Latour, Deleuze, Heidegger, and others, Hawk reconstructs key concepts in the field including composition, process, research, collaboration, publics, and rhetoric. His work delivers a cutting-edge response to the state of the field, where it is headed, and the possibilities for postprocess and postwriting composition and rhetoric.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780822965411
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date: 08/07/2018
Series: Composition, Literacy, and Culture
Edition description: 1
Pages: 296
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Byron Hawk is associate professor of English at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of ACounter-History of Composition: Toward Methodologies of Complexity, winner of the W. Ross Winterowd Award, and coeditor of Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: Re-Sounding 1

1 Composition As Quasi-Object 16

2 Process As Refrain 47

3 Research As Transduction 77

4 Collaboration As Coordination 111

5 Publics As Spheres 151

6 Rhetoric As Resonance 187

Conclusion: Resounding 224

Notes 237

Works Cited 281

Index 299

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