Out of Style
Subtitle: Reanimating Stylistic Study in Composition and Rhetoric
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Published: January 31, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780874216790
Subjects: Composition & Creative Writing - General; Rhetoric; Language Arts & Disciplines / Rhetoric; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language
Description: "Paul Butler applauds the emerging interest in the study of style among compositionists, arguing that the loss of stylistics from composition in recent decades left it - alive only in the popular imagination as a set - of grammar conventions. Butler's goal in Out of Style is to articulate style as a vital and productive source of invention, and to redefine its importance for current research, theory, and pedagogy." "Scholars in composition know that the ideas about writing most common in the discourse of public intellectuals are egregiously backward. Without a vital approach to stylistics, Butler argues writing studies will never dislodge the controlling fantasies of self-authorized pundits in the nation's intellectual press. Composition must answer with a public discourse that is responsive to readers ongoing interest in style but is also grounded in composition theory."--Jacket.