College Composition and Communication Feb 2017

Don’t Call It Expressivism: Legacies of a “Tacit Tradition”

Eli Goldblatt

Abstract

Expressivism lost status and respect in composition and rhetoric during the 1990s, despite attempts by some to defend its insights. Few in the field call themselves expressivists today, and yet we can recognize traces of this movement in work by contemporary scholars and theorists. Indeed, the field itself still retains commitments that echo that early approach to writing and writers.

Journal
College Composition and Communication
Published
2017-02-01
DOI
10.58680/ccc201728962
Open Access
Closed
Topics
composition theory race and writing

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