Composition as a Human Science

Contributions to the Self-Understanding of a Discipline

By: Louise Wetherbee Phelps

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Paperback | 1 February 1991

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This groundbreaking collection of essays is one of the first works to reflect directly and systematically on the conceptual and ethical basis for composition studies as a new discipline of written language. Phelps articulates a philosophy of composition generous enough to accommodate all the strands of current work without being overly eclectic--an open framework subject to modification and addition as the field develops. She draws on wide reading in the humanities and social sciences--including cognitive science, linguistics, literary theory, education, philosophy, hermeneutics, rhetoric, and psychology--to define the contribution and place of composition studies within the larger intellectual and cultural community. The book will therefore interest theorists and scholars in a wide variety of fields.

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"Every serious scholar in the field of composition must read Louise Phelp's Composition as a Human Science. The book sets out to do for composition what Chomsky's Syntactic Structures did for linguistics, Derrida's Of Grammatology did for philosophy, and Millett's Sexual Politics did for feminism."--College Composition and Communication "Represents a thoroughgoing redefinition and reconceptualization of the discipline of composition, one that anyone active in this field will need to attend to....The argument is informed and persuasive."--The Writing Instructor "The truth is, I really like this book, with emphasis on the present tense; I find myself rereading it, pondering it, defending it, attacking it, recommending it to my students."--Journal of Advanced Composition "Every serious scholar in the field of composition must read Louise Phelp's Composition as a Human Science. The book sets out to do for composition what Chomsky's Syntactic Structures did for linguistics, Derrida's Of Grammatology did for philosophy, and Millett's Sexual Politics did for feminism."--College Composition and Communication "Represents a thoroughgoing redefinition and reconceptualization of the discipline of composition, one that anyone active in this field will need to attend to....The argument is informed and persuasive."--The Writing Instructor "The truth is, I really like this book, with emphasis on the present tense; I find myself rereading it, pondering it, defending it, attacking it, recommending it to my students."--Journal of Advanced Composition

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