The Formation Of College English
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The Formation Of College English
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Author : Thomas P. Miller
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Release Date : 1997-04-15
The Formation Of College English written by Thomas P. Miller and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Pre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-04-15 with Education categories.
In the middle of the eighteenth century, English literature, composition, and rhetoric were introduced almost simultaneously into colleges throughout the British cultural provinces. Professorships of rhetoric and belles lettres were established just as print was reaching a growing reading public and efforts were being made to standardize educated taste and usage. The provinces saw English studies as a means to upward social mobility through cultural assimilation. In the educational centers of England, however, the introduction of English represented a literacy crisis brought on by provincial institutions that had failed to maintain classical texts and learned languages.Today, as rhetoric and composition have become reestablished in the humanities in American colleges, English studies are being broadly transformed by cultural studies, community literacies, and political controversies. Once again, English departments that are primarily departments of literature see these basic writing courses as a sign of a literacy crisis that is undermining the classics of literature. The Formation of College English reexamines the civic concerns of rhetoric and the politics that have shaped and continue to shape college English.
The Formation Of College English
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Author : Assistant Professor Thomas P Miller, B.A., PH.D.
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-08-21
The Formation Of College English written by Assistant Professor Thomas P Miller, B.A., PH.D. and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-21 with categories.
In the middle of the eighteenth century, English literature, composition, and rhetoric were introduced almost simultaneously into colleges throughout the British cultural provinces. Professorships of rhetoric and belles lettres were established just as print was expanding the reading public and efforts were being made to standardize educated taste and usage. The provinces saw English studies as a means to upward social mobility through cultural assimilation. In the educational centers of England, however, the introduction of English represented a literacy crisis brought on by provincial institutions that had failed to maintain classical texts and learned languages. In The Formation of College English, Thomas P. Miller examines the teaching of introductory English courses in the broadly based colleges rather than as an object of scholarship as taught in the elite institutions. The need to assimilate broad classes of readers shaped how these subjects were first taught in colleges in Ireland, Scotland, America, and academies formed by dissenters forced out of Oxford and Cambridge during the Restoration. This modern equation of English studies with literary studies marked a historical departure from rhetoric's connection to moral philosophy. Within the civic humanist tradition, rhetoric and moral philosophy shared a concern for political discourse and popular values. Adam Smith and other professors of moral philosophy were among the first to teach courses on rhetoric and belles lettres that advanced two basic trends: a belletristic tendency to conflate ethics and aesthetics as matters of personal sentiment, and the scientistic project of applying Newtonian method to the human psyche andbody politic to establish "the science of man". Today, rhetoric and composition have become reestablished in the humanities in American colleges. English studies are being broadly transformed by work with cultural studies, community literacies, and political controversies. Once again, English departments that are defined as departments of literature see these basic writing courses as a sign of a literacy crisis that is undermining the classics of literature. The Formation of College English in its reexamination of the civic concerns of rhetoric and the politics that have shaped college English will shed new light on this process.
The Formation Of School Subjects
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Author : Thomas S. Popkewitz
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-10-03
The Formation Of School Subjects written by Thomas S. Popkewitz and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-03 with Education categories.
Originally published in 1987. This volume focuses upon the emergence of the subject-matter of the American school. This provides entrance to looking at the interplay between social, cultural, economic and professional interests that give form to contemporary school practices. The historical detail enables understanding of how school knowledge is shaped and fashioned by issues of structural continuity and social transformation. This selection of chapters looks at how practices have been shaped by the struggles to define the American school curriculum in different subjects. The authors bring out how particular social values are made into ideologies; and examine the past to enable consideration of the possibilities for further development.
A Short History Of Writing Instruction
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Author : James Jerome Murphy
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012
A Short History Of Writing Instruction written by James Jerome Murphy and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Education categories.
A Short History of Writing Instruction preserves the legacy of writing instruction from antiquity to contemporary times with a unique focus on the material, educational, and institutional context of the Western rhetorical tradition.
The Formation Of The English Kingdom In The Tenth Century
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Author : George Molyneaux
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2015-05-08
The Formation Of The English Kingdom In The Tenth Century written by George Molyneaux and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-08 with History categories.
The central argument of The Formation of the English Kingdom in the Tenth Century is that the English kingdom which existed at the time of the Norman Conquest was defined by the geographical parameters of a set of administrative reforms implemented in the mid- to late tenth century, and not by a vision of English unity going back to Alfred the Great (871-899). In the first half of the tenth century, successive members of the Cerdicing dynasty established a loose domination over the other great potentates in Britain. They were celebrated as kings of the whole island, but even in their Wessex heartlands they probably had few means to regulate routinely the conduct of the general populace. Detailed analysis of coins, shires, hundreds, and wapentakes suggests that it was only around the time of Edgar (957/9-975) that the Cerdicing kings developed the relatively standardised administrative apparatus of the so-called 'Anglo-Saxon state'. This substantially increased their ability to impinge upon the lives of ordinary people living between the Channel and the Tees, and served to mark that area off from the rest of the island. The resultant cleft undermined the idea of a pan-British realm, and demarcated the early English kingdom as a distinct and coherent political unit. In this volume, George Molyneaux places the formation of the English kingdom in a European perspective, and challenges the notion that its development was exceptional: the Cerdicings were only one of several ruling dynasties around the fringes of the former Carolingian Empire for which the late ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries were a time of territorial expansion and consolidation.
Rhetorics Poetics And Cultures
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Author : James A. Berlin
language : en
Publisher: Parlor Press LLC
Release Date : 2003
Rhetorics Poetics And Cultures written by James A. Berlin and has been published by Parlor Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures is James Berlin's most comprehensive effort to refigure the field of English Studies. Here, in his last book, Berlin both historically situates and recovers for today the tools and insights of rhetoric-displaced and marginalized, he argues, by the allegedly disinterested study of aesthetic texts in the college English department. Berlin sees rhetoric as offering a unique perspective on the current disciplinary crisis, complementing the challenging perspectives offered by postmodern literary theory and cultural studies. Taking into account the political and intellectual issues at stake and the relation of these issues to economic and social transformations, Berlin argues for a pedagogy that makes the English studies classroom the center of disciplinary activities, the point at which theory, practice, and democratic politics intersect. This new educational approach, organized around text interpretation and production-not one or the other exclusively, as before-prepares students for work, democratic politics, and consumer culture today by providing a revised conception of both reading and writing as acts of textual interpretation; it also gives students tools to critique the socially constructed, politically charged reality of classroom, college, and culture. This new edition of Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures includes JAC response essays by Linda Brodkey, Patricia Harkin, Susan Miller, John Trimbur, and Victor J. Vitanza, as well as an afterword by Janice M. Lauer. These essays situate Berlin's work in personal, pedagogical, and political contexts that highlight the continuing importance of his work for understanding contemporary disciplinary practice.
A Short History Of Writing Instruction
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Author : James J. Murphy
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-05-04
A Short History Of Writing Instruction written by James J. Murphy and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Short enough to be synoptic, yet long enough to be usefully detailed, A Short History of Writing Instruction is the ideal text for undergraduate courses and graduate seminars in rhetoric and composition. It preserves the legacy of writing instruction from antiquity to contemporary times with a unique focus on the material, educational, and institutional context of the Western rhetorical tradition. Its longitudinal approach enables students to track the recurrence over time of not only specific teaching methods, but also major issues such as social purpose, writing as power, the effect of technologies, the rise of vernaculars, and writing as a force for democratization. The collection is rich in scholarship and critical perspectives, which is made accessible through the robust list of pedagogical tools included, such as the Key Concepts listed at the beginning of each chapter, and the Glossary of Key Terms and Bibliography for Further Study provided at the end of the text. Further additions include increased attention to orthography, or the physical aspects of the writing process, new material on high school instruction, sections on writing in the electronic age, and increased coverage of women rhetoricians and writing instruction of women. A new chapter on writing instruction in Late Medieval Europe was also added to augment coverage of the Middle Ages, fill the gap in students’ knowledge of the period, and present instructional methods that can be easily reproduced in the modern classroom.
Towards A Rhetoric Of Everyday Life
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Author : Martin Nystrand
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 2003
Towards A Rhetoric Of Everyday Life written by Martin Nystrand and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Rhetoric has traditionally studied acts of persuasion in the affairs of government and men, but this work investigates the language of other, non-traditional rhetors, including immigrants, women, urban children and others who have long been on the margins of civic life and political forums.
Institutions Of Literature 1700 1900
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Author : Jon Mee
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-07-21
Institutions Of Literature 1700 1900 written by Jon Mee and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-21 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This collection provides students and researchers with a new and lively understanding of the role of institutions in the production, reception, and meaning of literature in the period 1700–1900. The period saw a fundamental transition from a patronage system to a marketplace in which institutions played an important mediating role between writers and readers, a shift with consequences that continue to resonate today. Often producers themselves, institutions processed and claimed authority over a variety of cultural domains that never simply tessellated into any unified system. The collection's primary concerns are British and imperial environments, with a comparative German case study, but it offers encouragement for its approaches to be taken up in a variety of other cultural contexts. From the Post Office to museums, from bricks and mortar to less tangible institutions like authorship and genre, this collection opens up a new field for literary studies.
The Selected Writings Of John Witherspoon
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Author : Thomas P. Miller
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 2015-11-25
The Selected Writings Of John Witherspoon written by Thomas P. Miller and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-25 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Considered the first significant teacher of rhetoric in America, John Witherspoon also introduced Scottish moral philosophy to this country and as president of Princeton University reformed the curriculum to give emphasis to both studies. He was an active pamphleteer on religious and political issues and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Editor Thomas P. Miller argues that Witherspoon’s career exemplifies the Ciceronian ideal, and the eight selections Miller presents from the 1802 American edition of the Works corroborate that claim. This paperback edition includes a new preface by the editor that surveys the scholarship published on Witherspoon over the past twenty-five years and discusses how Miller’s own perspective on Witherspoon has changed during that time.