Synopses & Reviews
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.
Review
"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
"Represents a thoroughgoing redefinition and reconceptualization of the discipline of composition, one that anyone active in this field will need to attend to....The argument is informed and persuasive."--The Writing Instructor
"The truth is, I really like this book, with emphasis on the present tense; I find myself rereading it, pondering it, defending it, attacking it, recommending it to my students."--Journal of Advanced Composition
Synopsis
These fifteen essays, all inspired by the work of Ramsay Cook, focus on cultural and intellectual history, the impact of race, indiginous peoples' history, and women's history. Topics include radio in Canada, the Native vote in Saskatchewa, the writings of Harold Innis, Canadian missionaries
in Korea, and the role of women in the textile igdustry and their attitudes toward unions. The book provides a rich cross section of the work of contemporary historians in Canada.
Synopsis
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.