Centrality of Style, The

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In The Centrality of Style, editors Mike Duncan and Star Medzerian Vanguri argue that style is a central concern of composition studies even as they demonstrate that some of the most compelling work in the area has emerged from the margins of the field.

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• Publié par: Parlor Press, LLC
• Date de parution: 07 avril 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781602354258
• Langue: English

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PERSPECTIVES ON WRITING
Series Editor, Susan H. McLeod
The Perspectives on Writing series addresses writing studies in a broad sense. Consistent with the wide ranging approaches characteristic of teaching and scholarship in writing across the curriculum, the series presents works that take divergent perspectives on working as a writer, teaching writing, administering writing programs, and studying writing in its various forms.
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Martine Courant Rife, Shaun Slattery, and Dànielle Nicole DeVoss (Eds.), Copy(write): Intellectual Property in the Writing Classroom (2011)
Doreen Starke-Meyerring, Anthony Paré, Natasha Artemeva, Miriam Horne, and Larissa Yousoubova, Writing in Knowledge Societies (2011)
Andy Kirkpatrick and Zhichang Xu, Chinese Rhetoric and Writing: An Introduction for Language Teachers (2012)
Chris Thaiss, Gerd Bräuer, Paula Carlino, Lisa Ganobcsik-Williams, and Aparna Sinha (Eds.), Writing Programs Worldwide: Profiles of Academic Writing in Many Places (2012)
Charles Bazerman, Chris Dean, Jessica Early, Karen Lunsford, Suzie Null, Paul Rogers, and Amanda Stansell (Eds.), International Advances in Writing Research: Cultures, Places, Measures (2012)


THE CENTRALITY OF STYLE
Edited by Mike Duncan and Star Medzerian Vanguri
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© 2013 by Mike Duncan and Star Medzerian Vanguri. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The centrality of style / edited by Mike Duncan and Star Medzerian Vanguri.
pages cm. -- (Perspectives on writing)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-1-60235-422-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-423-4 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. English language--Style. I. Duncan, Mike, 1975- editor of compilation. II. Vanguri, Star Medzerian, 1980- editor of compilation.
PE1421.C46 2013
808’.042’0711--dc23
2013011457
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Contents
Foreword
Paul Butler
Introduction to the Centrality of Style
Mike Duncan and Star Medzerian Vanguri
Part One: Conceptualizing Style
Introduction to Part One: Conceptualizing Style
Mike Duncan and Star Medzerian Vanguri
An Ethics of Attentions: Three Continuums of Classical and Contemporary Stylistic Manipulation for the 21 st Century Composition Classroom
William C. Kurlinkus
Stylistic Sandcastles: Rhetorical Figures as Composition’s Bucket and Spade
William FitzGerald
Using Stylistic Imitation in Freshman Writing Classes: The Rhetorical and Meta-Rhetorical Potential of Transitions in Geoffrey of Vinsauf’s Medieval Treatises
Denise Stodola
Architectonics and Style
Russell Greer
Making Style Practically Cool and Theoretically Hip
Keith Rhodes
Jim Corder’s Generative Ethos as Alternative to Traditional Argument, or Style’s Revivification of the Writer-Reader Relationship
Rosanne Carlo
Teaching Style as Cultural Performance
Chris Holcomb and M. Jimmie Killingsworth
Inventio and Elocutio: Language Instruction at St. Paul’s Grammar School and Today’s Stylistic Classroom
Tom Pace
The Research Paper As Stylistic Exercise
Mike Duncan
Part Two: Applying Style
Introduction to Part Two: Applying Style
Mike Duncan and Star Medzerian Vanguri
Style in Academic Writing
Nora Bacon
Tracking Interpersonal Style: The Use of Functional Language Analysis in College Writing Instruction
Zak Lancaster
Multimodal Style and the Evolution of Digital Writing Pedagogy
Moe Folk
Voice, Transformed: The Potentialities of Style Pedagogy in the Teaching of Creative Nonfiction
Crystal Fodrey
Fighting Styles: The Pedagogical Implications of Applying Contemporary Rhetorical Theory to the Persuasive Prose of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Hays
Luke Redington
Style and the Professional Writing Curriculum: Teaching Stylistic Fluency through Science Writing
Jonathan Buehl
Toward a Pedagogy of Psychic Distance
Erik Ellis
What Scoring Rubrics Teach Students (and Teachers) about Style
Star Medzerian Vanguri


Foreword
Paul Butler
University of Houston
The Centrality of Style presents readers with a paradox. The editors begin with the convincing argument that style must be regarded as central to the discipline of composition studies. Indeed, the collection’s rich diversity of chapters reasserts the prominent place of style in the field from different perspectives, historical moments, and theoretical and pedagogical approaches.
Yet despite the book’s claim of style’s centrality, it makes an equally forceful case—which may appear contradictory at first—that some of the most exciting new ideas in stylistic study have emerged not from the center but the margins of the field—and the margins’ intersections with other disciplines, ideas, cultures, and sites of inquiry.
The paradox inherent in the tension of seeing style as both central and marginal is not new to those in rhetoric and composition. Mikhail Bakhtin (1981) has described a similar phenomenon in discussing the clash of language’s unifying, or centripetal forces, and their counterpart—the dispersing, or centrifugal forces that often disrupt prevailing norms. In public sphere theory, critical theorist Michael Warner (2005), borrowing from Jurgen Habermas (1989) and others, depicts an identical discordance in the tension between publics that dominate social discourse and their counterpart, a culturally less powerful, oppositional group, called a counterpublic , which constantly works against that dominance even as it maintains, says Warner, “at some level, conscious or not, an awareness of its subordinate status” (p. 119). With respect to counterpublics, Warner says it is the oppositional aspect of their style that “performs membership” (p. 142).
There is no question that The Centrality of Style navigates the push and pull of these kinds of oppositions in compelling new ways. The real question is, How does the volume manage to position style in the field as what Frank Farmer (2008), borrowing from anthropologist Victor Turner, calls a liminal counterpublic , emanating from the break or rupture of the public-counterpublic relationship that somehow exists “betwixt and between” the two? How, in other words, does style’s very centrality depend on its marginalization, lack of power, and sometimes “renegade” status (Johnson, 2003) both inside, and outside, the field?
Some answers to that question, and paradox, can be found in this volume. While there are many examples throughout the collection, here are some of the representative concepts that suggest even larger ideas in The Centrality of Style and show the current push and pull of style’s liminal status in the field.
Style as Lingua Franca
In his article in this volume, William FitzGerald argues that “[s]tyle has become a contemporary lingua franca ,” and he gives evidence of the centrality of style historically, in popular culture, and in what he calls “the return of the figurative.” Yet even as he restores style to a pivotal location in composition and rhetoric, FitzGerald makes a parallel move of relocating style at the periphery—marginalized, he says, by the continuing struggle of the figures of speech for disciplinary legitimacy and for circulation among a br