Critical Expressivism Theory and Practice in the Composition Classroom

Critical Expressivism is an ambitious attempt to re-appropriate intellectual territory that has more often been charted by its detractors than by its proponents. Indeed, as Peter Elbow observes in his contribution to this volume, "As far as I can tell, the term 'expressivist' was coin...

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Main Authors: Roeder, Tara (Author), Gatto, Roseanne (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] WAC Clearinghouse [2014]
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Preface: Yes, I Know That Expressivism Is out of Vogue, But ..., Lizbeth Bryant
  • Re-Imagining Expressivism: An Introduction, Tara Roeder and Roseanne Gatto
  • Section One: Critical Self-Construction
  • "Personal Writing" and "Expressivism" as Problematic Terms, Peter Elbow
  • Selfhood and the Personal Essay: A Pragmatic Defense, Thomas Newkirk
  • Critical Memoir and Identity Formation: Being, Belonging, Becoming, Nancy Mack
  • Critical Expressivism's Alchemical Challenge, Derek Owens
  • Past-Writing: Negotiating the Complexity of Experience and Memory, Jean Bessette
  • Essai—A Metaphor: Writing to Show Thinking, Lea Povozhaev
  • Section Two: Personal Writing and Social Change
  • Communication as Social Action: Critical Expressivist Pedagogies in the Writing Classroom, Patricia Webb Boyd
  • From the Personal to the Social, Daniel F. Collins
  • "Is it Possible to Teach Writing So That People Stop Killing Each Other?" Nonviolence, Composition, and Critical Expressivism, Scott Wagar
  • The (Un)Knowable Self and Others: Critical Empathy and Expressivism, Eric Leake
  • Section Three: Histories
  • John Watson Is to Introspectionism as James Berlin Is to Expressivism (And Other Analogies You Won't Find on the SAT), Maja Wilson
  • Expressive Pedagogies in the University of Pittsburgh's Alternative Curriculum Program, 1973-1979, Chris Warnick
  • Rereading Romanticism, Rereading Expressivism: Revising "Voice" through Wordsworth's Prefaces, Hannah J. Rule
  • Emerson's Pragmatic Call for Critical Conscience: Double Consciousness, Cognition, and Human Nature, Anthony Petruzzi
  • Section Four: Pedagogies
  • Place-Based Genre Writing as Critical Expressivist Practice, David Seitz
  • Multicultural Critical Pedagogy in the Community-Based Classroom: A Motivation for Foregrounding the Personal, Kim M. Davis
  • The Economy of Expressivism and Its Legacy of Low/No-Stakes Writing, Sheri Rysdam
  • Revisiting Radical Revision, Jeff Sommers
  • Contributors