Saying And Silence / Frank Farmer.

• Author: Farmer, Frank, 1951-
• Place / Publishing House: Logan : : Utah State University Press,, 2001.; ©2001.
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (185 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In composition studies for the last two or three decades, Bakhtin has been especially influential through his theories of language, dialogue, and genre. His work is required reading in upper division and graduate rhetoric courses and is included in the recent major surveys if rhetoric.Frank Farmer has contributed important essays to the study of Bakhtin in composition, and in Saying and Silence he gathers some of those, along with several new essays, into a single volume. Scholars who specialize in Bakhtin will find this work engaging, but equally Farmer wants to explicate

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 "NOT THEORY . . . BUT A SENSE OF THEORY" The Superaddressee and the Contexts of Eden; 2 AESOPIAN PREDICAMENTS , or BITING MY TONGUE A S I WRITE: A Defense of Rhetorical Ambiguity; 3 VOICE REPRISED Three Etudes for a Dialogic Understanding; 4 SOUNDING THE OTHER WHO SPEAKS IN ME Toward a Dialogic Understanding of Imitation; 5 PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION Bakhtin, Composition, and the Problem of the Outside; 6 DIALOGUE AND CRITIQUE Bakhtin and the Cultural Studies Writing Classroom; ENDNOTES; WORKS CITED; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR