Out of Style : Reanimating Stylistic Study in Composition and Rhetoric / / Paul Butler.
Paul Butler applauds the emerging interest in the study of style among scholars of rhetoric and composition, 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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Logan, Utah : : Utah State University Press,, 2008. ©2008. |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (197 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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| Summary: | Paul Butler applauds the emerging interest in the study of style among scholars of rhetoric and composition, 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 |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-175) and index. |
| ISBN: | 087421680X |
| Access: | Open Access |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Paul Butler. |