Connections Between Neuroscience, Rhetoric, and Writing: A Plastic Pedagogy for the Digital Age

Comstock, Edward J.

ISBN 10: 0367432978 / ISBN 13: 9780367432973

Published by Taylor & Francis, 2019

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198 pages. 9.02x5.98x0.51 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Connections Between Neuroscience, Rhetoric, and Writing: A Plastic Pedagogy for the Digital Age
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367432978
• ISBN 13: 9780367432973
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.37 kilograms

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Synopsis

This book argues that contemporary neuroscience compliments, extends, and challenges recent and influential posthuman and new materialist accounts of the relations between rhetoric, affect, and writing pedagogy. Drawing on cutting-edge neuro-philosophy, Comstock re-thinks both historical and current relations between writing and power around questions of affect, attention, and plasticity. In considering the uses and limits of exciting new findings from the neurobiology, this volume both theorizes and offers pedagogical strategies for teaching writing in a digital age characterized by the erosion of wonder and pervasive disaffection. Ultimately, in response to recent critiques transcendental reason and subjectivity, and related calls for the increased inclusion of multi-modal and digital writing and rhetoric, Comstock argues for an embodied pedagogy that values the substantial relations between writing and pedagogical care.

About the Author

Edward J. Comstock is Senior Professorial Lecturer of Literature at American University, USA.