Composition As a Human Science
Contributions to the Self-Understanding of a Discipline
1st Edition
Published on 25. July 1991
287 pages
978-0-19-536182-7 (ISBN)
Description
This groundbreaking collection of essays is one of the first works to reflect directly and systematically on the conceptual and ethical basis for composition studies as a new discipline of written language. Phelps articulates a philosophy of composition generous enough to accommodate all the strands of current work without being overly eclectic--an open framework subject to modification and addition as the field develops. She draws on wide reading in the humanities and social sciences--including cognitive science, linguistics, literary theory, education, philosophy, hermeneutics, rhetoric, and psychology--to define the contribution and place of composition studies within the larger intellectual and cultural community. The book will therefore interest theorists and scholars in a wide variety of fields.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Part One: Constructing an Ecology of Composition
- 1 The Cultural Ground
- 2 The Idea of Composition as a Discipline
- Part Two: The Process of Reconstruction
- 3 Possibilities for a Critical Rhetoric
- 4 Imagining a Psychology of Composition
- 5 Literacy and the Limits of the Natural Attitude
- 6 The Dance of Discourse
- 7 Dialectics of Coherence
- 8 The Third Way: Paul Ricoeur and the Problem of Method
- Part Three: Application
- 9 Toward a Human Science Disciplined by Practical Wisdom
- Works Cited
- Name Index
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- Subject Index
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