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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 Student

Author

Berlin, James A.

Publisher

National Council of Teachers of English, 1111 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801-1096 (Stock No. 41455-3050: $18.95 members, $25.95 nonmembers)

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814141458

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Science, Humanities