English composition as a happening / / Geoffrey Sirc.

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-di...

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Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (350 p.)
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  • 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