English composition as a happening / / Geoffrey Sirc.

• Author: Sirc, Geoffrey Michael.
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (350 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

What happened to the bold, kicky promise of writing instruction in the 1960s? The current conservative trend in composition is analyzed allegorically by Geoffrey Sirc in this book-length homage to Charles Deemer's 1967 article, in which the theories and practices of Happenings artists (multi-disciplinary performance pioneers) were used to invigorate college writing. Sirc takes up Deemer's inquiry, moving through the material and theoretical concerns of such pre- and post-Happenings influences as Duchamp and Pollock, situationists and punks, as well as many of the Happenings artists proper

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; 0 THE STILL-UNBUILT HACIENDA; 1 "WHAT IS COMPOSITION . . . ?" AFTER DUCHAMP (Notes Toward a General Teleintertext); 2 THE AMERICAN ACTION WRITERS; 3 SCENES FROM LATE SIXTIES COMPOSITION; 4 WRITING CLASSROOM AS A & P PARKING LOT; 5 NEVER MIND THE TAGMEMICS, WHERE'S THE SEX PISTOLS?; 6 ENGLISH COMPOSITION AS A HAPPENING II; REFERENCES; Bonus Track FUNERAL CEREMONY OF THE ANTI-PROCÈS II A happening for CCCC; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR