The Rhetoric of Cool: Composition Studies and New Media
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (674 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 080932752X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Insightful and Provocative" according to Leftcoastpunk. I'm a huge advocate of "alternative" pedagogy and discourse.Rice does a good job in providing some history of how we got to where we are in Composition, and what we missed out on in terms of strictly focusing on just the written text.Concepts like "chora" and the "box logic" seem to be very interesting approaches to composition. (See Roland Barthes' "Lover's Discourse" for an example of a written work of Chora. I did mine digitally using and blending both text and image).I think we're due for a change, or we at least need to catch up and expand our horizons in the composition field.
Rice redefines these moments in order to invent a new electronic practice. The Rhetoric of Cool addresses the disciplinary claim that composition studies underwent a rebirth in 1963. Starting from these three positions, Rice focuses on chora, appropriation, commutation, juxtaposition, nonlinearity, and imageryrhetorical gestures conducive to new media work-- to construct the rhetoric of cool.An innovative work that approaches computers and writing issues from historical, critical, theoretical, and practical perspectives,
This volume makes it clear that to refuse students a formal education in cool is to miss the opportunity to teach them oral and print writing.”Victor J. The Rhetoric of Cool argues that something (cool”) was being left behind, which resulted in the failure to see the coming new media. Vitanza, Clemson University . Jeff Rice returns to 1963 to retell the story of the birth of composition and the miscarriage of the birth of the cool in composition