Textual Carnivals: The Politics of Composition

by Susan Nmiller, Susan Miller, Susan Nmiller

Book Overview

This is the first book-length study of the status of composition in English studies and the uneasy relationship between composition and literature. Composition studies and institutional histories of English studies have long needed this kind of clarification of the historical and political contexts of composition teaching, research, and administration.

Susan Miller argues that composition constitutes a major national industry, citing the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809319225
• ISBN13: 9780809319220
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.5"