Doing Emotion: Rhetoric, Writing, Teaching - Softcover

Micciche, Laura

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0325010994 ISBN 13: 9780325010991

Publisher: Heinemann, 2007

Synopsis

That the emotional realities of teaching have changed significantly over the past decade is undeniable; Doing Emotion provides much needed guidance both on understanding these changes and on imagining a responsive pedagogy for these emotionally fraught timesa pedagogy grounded not in fear but in hope for better times.

Richard E. Miller

For Laura Micciche, emotion is neither the enemy of reason nor an irrational response to actions and ideas. Rather, she argues in the provocative and groundbreaking Doing Emotion that emotion is integral to research, discussion, analysis, and argumentthat is, to the essential fabric of rhetoric and composition.

Doing Emotion argues for a rhetoric of emotion by foregrounding the idea that emotions are performativeenacted and embodied in our social interactions, produced between and among individuals and textual objects. Emotion is something we do, rather than something we have. Micciche explores the implications of this claim in the context of writing classrooms, administrative structures, and the formation of disciplinary identity.

Drawing upon current research in emotion studies, performance studies, and feminist rhetorical studies, Micciche argues that a shift in our thinking about emotion leads to productive possibilities for teaching and learning. Rather than repressing and denying emotionality, Micciche demands that we acknowledge its constitutive role in our professional and pedagogical lives as well as in our evolving understandings of textual and extralinguistic meanings.

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About the Author

Laura R. Micciche is Associate Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati, where she teaches courses in writing, rhetoric, theory, and teacher training. She has published essays about emotion and composition studies in JAC and College English. She coedited (with Dale Jacobs) A Way to Move (Boynton/Cook, 2003), which explores practical and theoretical issues related to rhetorics of emotion. Her current research focuses on concepts of writing extracted from feminist theory that are relevant to first-year writing pedagogy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Heinemann
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0325010994
• ISBN 13: 9780325010991
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144