Out of Style: Reanimating Stylistic Study in Composition and Rhetoric

by Paul Butler

Paul Butler applauds the emerging interest in the study of style among scholars of rhetoric and composition, arguing that the loss of stylistics from composition in recent decades left it alive only in the popular imagination as a set of grammar conventions. Butler's goal in Out of Style is to articulate style as a vital and productive source of invention, and to redefine its importance for current research, theory, and pedagogy. Scholars in composition...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874216796
• ISBN13: 9780874216790
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Utah State University Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 8.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher