Pedagogy Oct 2010

The Heat of Composition

Heather Palmer

Abstract

This essay explores how the “heat of composition” is inexorably linked to ethos and also how writers, student or otherwise, might seek to create and intensify pleasure through a sustained textual becoming. I consider how this ethics of affect is an unfolding, an exteriorization of the intensities and forces of becoming writers, student or otherwise, who engage with the movements of desire.

Journal
Pedagogy
Published
2010-10-01
DOI
10.1215/15314200-2010-004
Open Access
Closed
Topics
argument affect and writing

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