
Composition as a Human Science
Contributions to the Self-Understanding of a Discipline
Louise Wetherbee Phelps(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 14. November 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-19-506782-8 (ISBN)
Description
The last twenty years have seen an explosion of writing programmes in American schools and universities. However, while composition has firmly established itself as a subject worthy of study, the major philosophical premises that differentiate a subject from a discipline have yet to be agreed upon. This book goes some way to resolving these problems.
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Every serious scholar in the field of composition must read Louise Phelp's Composition as a Human Science. The book sets out to do for composition what Chomsky's Syntactic Structures did for linguistics, Derrida's Of Grammatology did for philosophy, and Millett's Sexual Politics did for feminism. * College Composition and Communication *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
5 figures
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
410 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-506782-8 (9780195067828)
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Louise Wetherbee Phelps
Composition As a Human Science
Contributions to the Self-Understanding of a Discipline
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07/1991
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OUP eBook
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Professor of English and Director of Writing ProgramProfessor of English and Director of Writing Program, Syracuse University