Acts of Enjoyment : Rhetoric, Zizek, and the Return of the Subject /

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Why are today's students not realizing their potential as critical thinkers? Although educators have, for two decades, incorporated contemporary cultural studies into the teaching of composition and rhetoric, many students lack the powers of self-expression that are crucial for effecting social...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rickert, Thomas J. (Thomas Joseph), 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2007]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Žižek, Slavoj.
Literaturtheorie.
Rhetorik.
Rhetoric > Study and teaching.
EDUCATION > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
Rhetorique > Étude et enseignement.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. On belatedness and the return of the subject; or, The view from what will have been
  • 2. Toward a neo-Lacanian theory of discourse
  • 3. In the funhouse : mirroring subjects and objects
  • 4. Politica phantasmagoria : ideology in cultural studies rhetorics
  • 5. Breaking the law : resistance and the problem of limits
  • 6. "Hands up! You're free" : pedagogy, affect, and transformation.

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