Style

Brian Ray

Description

Style: An Introduction to History, Theory, Research, and Pedagogy conducts an in-depth investigation into the long and complex evolution of style in the study of rhetoric and writing. The theories, research methods, and pedagogies covered here offer a conception of style as more than decoration or correctness—views that are still prevalent in many college settings as well as in public discourse.

Sujets

• Literary Criticism

Informations

• Publié par: Parlor Press, LLC
• Date de parution: 01 novembre 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9781602356153
• Langue: English

Extrait

Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition
Series Editors: Charles Bazerman, Mary Jo Reiff, and Anis Bawarshi
The Series provides compact, comprehensive and convenient surveys of what has been learned through research and practice as composition has emerged as an academic discipline over the last half century. Each volume is devoted to a single topic that has been of interest in rhetoric and composition in recent years, to synthesize and make available the sum and parts of what has been learned on that topic. These reference guides are designed to help deepen classroom practice by making available the collective wisdom of the field and will provide the basis for new research. The Series is intended o be of use to teachers at all levels of education, researchers and scholars of writing, graduate students learning about the field, and all, nationally and internationally, who have interest in or responsibility for writing programs and the teaching of writing.
Parlor Press and The WAC Clearinghouse are collaborating so that these books will be widely available through low cost print editions and free electronic distribution. The publishers and the series editors are all teachers and researchers of writing, committed to the principle that knowledge should freely circulate. We see the opportunities that new technologies have for further democratizing knowledge. And we see that to share the power of writing is to share the means for all to articulate their needs, interest, and learning into the great experiment of literacy.
Existing Books in the Series
Invention in Rhetoric and Composition (2004, Lauer)
Reference Guide to Writing across the Curriculum (2005, Bazerman, et al.)
Revision: History, Theory, and Practice (2006, Horning and Becker)
Writing Program Administration (2007, McLeod)
Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics (2008, Long)
Argument in Composition (2009, Ramage, et al.)
Basic Writing (2010, Otte and Mlynarczyk)
Genre: An Introduction to History, Theory, Research, and Pedagogy (2010, Bawarshi and Reiff)
Reconnecting Reading and Writing (2013, Horning and Kraemer)
Style: An Introduction to History, Theory, Research, and Pedagogy (2014, Ray)


style
An Introduction to History, Theory, Research, and Pedagogy
Brian Ray
Parlor Press
Anderson, South Carolina
www.parlorpress.com
The WAC Clearinghouse
Fort Collins, Colorado
http://wac.colostate.edu/


Parlor Press LLC, Anderson, South Carolina, USA
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Ray, Brian, 1982-
Style : an introduction to history, theory, research, and pedagogy / Brian Ray.
pages cm. -- (Reference guides to rhetoric and composition)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-60235-612-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-613-9 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Style, Literary--History. 2. Narration (Rhetoric)--History. 3. Knowledge, Theory of--History. 4. Language and education--History. I. Title.
PN3383.S79R39 2014
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The WAC Clearinghouse supports teachers of writing across the disciplines. Hosted by Colorado State University’s Composition Program, it brings together four journals, three book series, and resources for teachers who use writing in their courses. This book will also be available free on the Internet at The WAC Clearinghouse ( http://wac.colostate.edu/).


Contents
Acknowledgments
Series Editors’ Preface
Anis Bawarshi, Charles Bazerman, and Mary Jo Reiff
1 What Is Style, and Why Does It Matter?
Definitions of Style
Style as Form and Meaning
Style as Eloquence
Style as Grammar
Style as Voice
Style as Possibility and Risk
Conclusion: A Cacophony of Definitions
2 Historical Review I: From Ancient Greece through Rome
Style Before the Sophists
Sophists (Fifth and Fourth Centuries BCE)
Plato (Fourth Century BCE)
Isocrates (Fifth and Fourth Centuries BCE)
Aristotle (Fourth Century BCE)
Roman Style: Cicero and Quintilian
Greco-Roman Rhetorical Curriculum: Imitation and the Progymnasmata
Later Greeks: Demetrius, Hermogenes, and Longinus (First — Fourth Century, CE)
Feminist and Non-Western Styles in the Classical and Ancient World
Augustine of Hippo (Fourth and Fifth Centuries CE)
3 Historical Review II: From the Middle Ages through Nineteenth Century US
Boethius (Fifth and Sixth Centuries CE)
Christine de Pizan
Renaissance Style
Renaissance Curriculum
Erasmus
The Ramist Watershed
Style in the Enlightenment and the Standardization of English
Gutting the Classical Canon: Harvard and the New Curriculum, 1875–1940
4 Contemporary Views on Style
Style in Publics and Counterpublics
Style, Voice, and Discourse
Bakhtin, Dialogism, and Style
Bakhtin, Classical Rhetoric, and Postmodern Imitation
5 The Relationship Between Style, Voice, and Grammar
Linguistics and Style in Rhetoric and Composition
Christensen’s Rhetoric
Winston Weathers and Alternate Style
Sentence-Combining Pedagogies
Rhetorical Grammar
6 Frontiers of Style in Rhetoric and Composition
Language Difference, Linguistic Diversity, and Style
Style, Voice, and Feedback in Second Language Writing
Women’s Writing and Breaking Rules
Style, Academic Genres, and Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC)
Style, Digital Genres, and Multimodality
Conclusion
7 Researching Style: Methods in Rhetoric, Composition, and Related Disciplines
Rhetoric and Composition
Stylistics
Discourse Analysis
Rhetorical Analysis
From Style to Styles: An Overview of Sociolinguistics
Dialectology
Corpus Linguistics and Stylistics
Research(es) on World Englishes and Global English
8 Teaching Strategies and Best Practices
T. R. Johnson and The Rhetoric of Pleasure
Textbooks: Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Approaches
Approaches Informed by Classical Rhetoric
Mixed Approaches
Final Thoughts on Teaching Style
Glossary
Annotated Bibliography: Further Readings on Style
Works Cited
About the Author
Index for Print Edition


Acknowledgments
The author would like to thank colleagues, friends, and family who helped make this book possible. Special thanks goes to series editors Charles Bazerman, Anis Bawarshi, and Mary Jo Reiff—who offered extensive feedback on drafts and pushed this book to its best form. I appreciated support and encouragement from scholars including Paul Butler, who read the manuscript as it neared completion. Thanks also to David Blakesley, editor of Parlor Press, for timely responses and attention to detail—as well as the close scrutiny of copyeditor Jeff Ludwig. It should be noted that this book is available online through generous efforts by Mike Palmquist, editor of the WAC Clearinghouse. Finally, a debt of gratitude is owed to all of the authors cited here, whose insights into style have provided the foundation for this project.


Series Editors’ Preface
Anis Bawarshi, Charles Bazerman, and Mary Jo Reiff
As one of the five rhetorical canons, style has always had a central place in writing, but what that place is has not always been clearly understood. From the point of view of readers, style is something we prize in texts as providing a pleasurable journey through a writer’s thoughts and as a mark of the quality of the writer’s mind and spirit. Writers seek to have a style that will engage the readers and will mark their own authorial distinctiveness. Yet what style consists of, where it comes from, and what its value is has undergone constant redefinitions and controversies.
At various stages in its historical treatment, style has been conflated with grammatical correctness and clarity (often associated with plain style) while at other times it has been positioned in opposition to grammatical correctness and conflated with voice and individual expression. Style has been associated, at times, with invention and at other times distinguished from invention. It has been defined both as one of the canons of rhetoric and as the only canon of rhetoric. At times style has been used to promote the value of rhetoric, and at other times it has been used to degrade rhetoric as mere ornamentation. It has been synonymous, at times, with norms and standardization and at other times synonymous with innovation, risk, and difference.  At the epicenter of this confusion is style’s complex, co-dependent relationship with rhetoric and grammar: We cannot stu