Resounding the Rhetorical: Composition as a Quasi-Object (Composition, Literacy, and Culture)

Hawk, Byron

ISBN 10: 0822965410 / ISBN 13: 9780822965411

Published by University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Resounding the Rhetorical: Composition as a Quasi-Object (Composition, Literacy, and Culture)
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822965410
• ISBN 13: 9780822965411
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Resounding the Rhetorical offers an original critical and theoretical examination of composition as a quasi-object. As composition flourishes in multiple media (digital, sonic, visual, etc.), Byron Hawk seeks to connect new materialism with current composition scholarship and critical theory. Using sound and music as his examples, he demonstrates how a quasi-object can and does materialize for communicative and affective expression, and becomes a useful mechanism for the study and execution of composition as a discipline. Through careful readings of Serres, Latour, Deleuze, Heidegger, and others, Hawk reconstructs key concepts in the field including composition, process, research, collaboration, publics, and rhetoric. His work delivers a cutting-edge response to the state of the field, where it is headed, and the possibilities for postprocess and postwriting composition and rhetoric.

About the Author

Byron Hawk is associate professor of English at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of A Counter-History of Composition: Toward Methodologies of Complexity, winner of the W. Ross Winterowd Award, and coeditor of Small Tech: The Culture of Digital Tools.