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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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: reanimating style in composition and rhetoric
  • Historical developments: relevant stylistic history and theory
  • Our of style: reclaiming an "inventional" style in composition
  • Style in the diaspora of composition studies
  • Style and the public intellectual: rethinking composition in the public sphere
  • Back in style: style and the future of composition studies.