Beyond Postprocess and Postmodernism

Reviews / Votes

"If you are going to read only one serious book about writing theory this year, make it this one....this book will make your think about the nature of technical writing, of authenticity and persona, of engaging readers. It will make you think about how you write, what you write, and why you write. It will give you fodder for those discussions that begin, 'The reason kids can't write today is that the schools don't teach enough grammar."
-Technical COMMUNICATION

"For those who thought they understood Corder from reading one or two of his articles or books, Beyond confirms what you thought you knew and then introduces you to interpretations of his writing through the lenses of historical and contemporary issues that are at once philosophical and theoretical...."
-Rhetoric Review

"At its best, this collection argues, the garden of rhetoric is a capacious one, welcoming a wild variety of plants to take root in its rich soil. In celebrating the life, work, and spirit of Jim Corder, these essays also celebrate Corder's view of rhetoric-as spacious, open, gently cooperative, inviting all kinds of experimentation in form and in subjectivities. In making a space for the inventiveness of human agency, Beyond Postprocess and Postmodernism: Essays on the Spaciousness of Rhetoric attempts to move the field of composition and rhetoric beyond both post-process and postmodernism and, along the way, to reclaim an important part of the rhetorical tradition."
-Andrea A. Lunsford
Stanford University