196 records matched your query       

Author:

Miller, Susan, 1942-

Title:

Assuming the positions : cultural pedagogy and the politics of commonplace writing / Susan Miller.

Publisher:

University of Pittsburgh Press,

Copyright Date:

c1998

Description:

xi, 339 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English language--Study and teaching--Study and teaching--United States.
Authorship--Political aspects--United States.
Authorship--Social aspects--United States.
Language and culture--United States.
Books and reading--United States.
Authorship--Sex differences.
Commonplace-books--History.
Critical pedagogy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-326) and index.

Contents:

A textual tradition : ordinary writing as cultural pedagogy -- A world lettered by codes : commonplace powers -- The schooled commonplace : writing along new lines -- Home improvements : culture as pedagogy -- True biases: "A defective and naturally bad system" -- The class on gender -- Gender as discourse -- Learning to spell patriarchy : fathers and sons -- Coda -- Fundamentals of authorship : rewriting commonplace desires.

Series:

Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture

ISBN:

9780822939917 (alk. paper)
0822939916 (alk. paper)
9780822956372 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822956373 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)36681638

LCCN:

97004792

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids) — 808/.042/07073

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)