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PublisherUniversity Press of Colorado
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Number of Pages196 Pages
Publication NameOut of Style : Reanimating Stylistic Study in Composition and Rhetoric
LanguageEnglish
SubjectRhetoric, Linguistics / General, Composition & Creative Writing
Publication Year2008
TypeTextbook
AuthorPaul Butler
Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines
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ReviewsBy offering a strategic counter reading of our discipline's history,Out of Styleundertakes a much needed rehabilitation of style for scholars and teachers in rhetoric and composition. What's especially promising here is Butler's closing argument--namely, that through style, scholars in our field can find a needed entry into public discussions about writing and can influence how our work gets represented in public discourses. Frank Farmer Conger-Gabel Professor of English University of Kansas, The way Butler listens to his own sentences here, engaging us in the unfolding of his words and making us sense how time opens up as language is sounded out, brightens our minds, promising us time to languish in the pleasures of style. Butler's opening moves-from recalling himself as a poetry lover, to recounting Richard Ohmann's definition of style as "a way of writing" (qtd. in Butler 2), to raising what he takes to be the canonical questions and positions in the study of style-are also carefully crafted, dynamic, and enveloping. (270) Butler's genius in the [fifth] chapter lies in his conceptualization of causes: why compositionists do not speak for writing or get heard in public. (272) Paul Butler's Out of Style does not endorse conventional wisdom. Instead, Butler offers us the more interesting claim that "style is not the product-based residue of current-traditional rhetoric that many say it is [. . .], but rather is a dynamic feature of the very process movement the field considers crucial to its disciplinary identity" (269). --College English, [Butler argues that a reanimation of style would not only help form better writing, but would also reanimate invention. And in the process he reinvigorates a history that is dynamic, a Golden Age of Comp. . . . A consciousness of style, of learning about, developing an affinity for, and teaching style will give us a way to counter public arguments against what we do, for we are constantly criticized. . . . This is a call for us to be stylin in public discourse. Victor Villanueva Chair of English, Auburn University College Composition and Communication, 62.4, Chapter two, "Historical Developments: Relevant Stylistic History and Theory," is an especially important chapter for everyone-yes, everyone-in composition studies to read. --Rhetoric Review, The way Butler listens to his own sentences here, engaging us in the unfolding of his words and making us sense how time opens up as language is sounded out, brightens our minds, promising us time to languish in the pleasures of style. Butler's opening moves--from recalling himself as a poetry lover, to recounting Richard Ohmann's definition of style as "a way of writing" (qtd. in Butler 2), to raising what he takes to be the canonical questions and positions in the study of style--are also carefully crafted, dynamic, and enveloping. (270) Butler's genius in the [fifth] chapter lies in his conceptualization of causes: why compositionists do not speak for writing or get heard in public. (272) Paul Butler's Out of Style does not endorse conventional wisdom. Instead, Butler offers us the more interesting claim that "style is not the product-based residue of current-traditional rhetoric that many say it is [. . .], but rather is a dynamic feature of the very process movement the field considers crucial to its disciplinary identity" (269). --College English, By offering a strategic counter reading of our discipline's history, Out of Style undertakes a much needed rehabilitation of style for scholars and teachers in rhetoric and composition. What's especially promising here is Butler's closing argument--namely, that through style, scholars in our field can find a needed entry into public discussions about writing and can influence how our work gets represented in public discourses. Frank Farmer Conger-Gabel Professor of English University of Kansas [Butler] argues that a reanimation of style would not only help form better writing, but would also reanimate invention. And in the process he reinvigorates a history that is dynamic, a Golden Age of Comp. . . . A consciousness of style, of learning about, developing an affinity for, and teaching style will give us a way to counter public arguments against what we do, for we are constantly criticized. . . . This is a call for us to be stylin in public discourse. Victor Villanueva Chair of English, Auburn University College Composition and Communication, 62.4 Chapter two, "Historical Developments: Relevant Stylistic History and Theory," is an especially important chapter for everyone--yes, everyone--in composition studies to read. --Rhetoric Review, [Butler] argues that a reanimation of style would not only help form better writing, but would also reanimate invention. And in the process he reinvigorates a history that is dynamic, a Golden Age of Comp. . . . A consciousness of style, of learning about, developing an affinity for, and teaching style will give us a way to counter public arguments against what we do, for we are constantly criticized. . . . This is a call for us to be stylin in public discourse. Victor Villanueva Chair of English, Auburn University College Composition and Communication, 62.4, By offering a strategic counter reading of our discipline's history, Out of Style undertakes a much needed rehabilitation of style for scholars and teachers in rhetoric and composition. What's especially promising here is Butler's closing argument--namely, that through style, scholars in our field can find a needed entry into public discussions about writing and can influence how our work gets represented in public discourses. Frank Farmer Conger-Gabel Professor of English University of Kansas, The way Butler listens to his own sentences here, engaging us in the unfolding of his words and making us sense how time opens up as language is sounded out, brightens our minds, promising us time to languish in the pleasures of style. Butler's opening moves--from recalling himself as a poetry lover, to recounting Richard Ohmann's definition of style as "a way of writing" (qtd. in Butler 2), to raising what he takes to be the canonical questions and positions in the study of style--are also carefully crafted, dynamic, and enveloping. (270) Butler's genius in the [fifth chapter lies in his conceptualization of causes: why compositionists do not speak for writing or get heard in public. (272) Paul Butler's Out of Style does not endorse conventional wisdom. Instead, Butler offers us the more interesting claim that "style is not the product-based residue of current-traditional rhetoric that many say it is [. . ., but rather is a dynamic feature of the very process movement the field considers crucial to its disciplinary identity" (269). --College English, Chapter two, "Historical Developments: Relevant Stylistic History and Theory," is an especially important chapter for everyone--yes, everyone--in composition studies to read. --Rhetoric Review
Grade FromCollege Freshman
Table Of ContentCONTENTSAcknowledgments00Introduction: Reanimating Style in Composition and Rhetoric00Historical Developments: Relevant Stylistic History and Theory00Out of Style: Reclaiming an "Inventional" Style in Composition00Style in the Diaspora of Composition Studies 00Style and the Public Intellectual: Rethinking Composition in the Public Sphere 00Back in Style: Style and the Future of Composition Studies 00Notes00References 00Index00
SynopsisPaul 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 know that the ideas about writing most common in the discourse of public intellectuals are egregiously backward. Without a vital approach to stylistics, Butler argues, writing studies will never dislodge the controlling fantasies of self-authorized pundits in the nation's intellectual press. Rhetoric and composition must answer with a public discourse that is responsive to readers' ongoing interest in style but is also grounded in composition theory., 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 know that the ideas about writing most common in the discourse of public intellectuals are egregiously backward. Without a vital approach to stylistics, Butler argues, writing studies will never dislodge the controlling fantasies of self-authorized pundits in the nation's intellectual press. Rhetoric and composition must answer with a public discourse that is responsive to readers' ongoing interest in style but is also grounded in composition theory., The Level 6 Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories, written by Roderick Hunt and illustrated by Alex Brychta, provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. Stories, More Stories A and More Stories B involve familiar situations and a variety of fantasy settings through the magic key adventures. Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with childrens reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.
LC Classification NumberP301
