A Brief Guide to Arguing about Literature (Resources for Argumentation, Reading, Writing, and Research) - Softcover

Schilb, John; Clifford, John

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9781319035303: A Brief Guide to Arguing about Literature (Resources for Argumentation, Reading, Writing, and Research)

Synopsis

Coherently discuss (argue) the meaning of literature, why certain books exist, and whether or not any of it maatters  by honing your abilities to read carefully, analyze texts and evaluate sources with A Brief Guide to Arguing about Literature.

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About the Author

John Schilb (PhD, State University of New York Binghamton) is a professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he holds the Culbertson Chair in Writing. He has coedited Contending with Words: Composition and Rhetoric in a Postmodern Age, and with John Clifford, Writing Theory and Critical Theory. He is author of Between the Lines: Relating Composition Theory and Literary Theory and Rhetorical Refusals: Defying Audiences Expectations.John Clifford (PhD, New York University) is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Editor of The Experience of Reading: Louis Rosenblatt and Reader-Response Theory, he has published numerous scholarly articles on pedagogy, critical theory, and composition theory, most recently in College English; Relations, Locations, Positions: Composition Theory for Writing Teachers; and in The Norton Book of Composition Studies."

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