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After the public turn : composition, counterpublics, and the citizen bricoleur /
The author argues that counterpublics and the people who make counterpublics - "citizen bricoleurs"--Deserve a more prominent role in our scholarship and in our classrooms. Encouraging students to understand and consider resistant or oppositional discourse is a viable route toward mature p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boulder, Colorado :
Utah State University Press,
2013
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The author argues that counterpublics and the people who make counterpublics - "citizen bricoleurs"--Deserve a more prominent role in our scholarship and in our classrooms. Encouraging students to understand and consider resistant or oppositional discourse is a viable route toward mature participation as citizens in a democracy. Farmer examines two very different kinds of publics, cultural and disciplinary, and discusses two counterpublics within those broad categories: zine discourses and certain academic discourses. By juxtaposing these two significantly different kinds of publics, the author suggests that each discursive world can be seen, in its own distinct way, as a counterpublic, an oppositional social formation that has a stake in widening or altering public life as we know it. Drawing on major figures in rhetoric and cultural theory, the author builds his argument about composition teaching and its relation to the public sphere, leading to a more sophisticated understanding of public life and a deeper sense of what democratic citizenship means for our time. -- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 182 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-175) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780874219142 0874219140 1457184222 9781457184222 1299192424 9781299192423 |