Emerging Voices: The Shifting Rhetorics of Style: Writing in Action in Modern Rhetoric

College English Sep 2012

Emerging Voices: The Shifting Rhetorics of Style: Writing in Action in Modern Rhetoric

Tara Lockhart

Abstract

This article excavates how style in writing was represented and taught in the under-investigated mid-twentieth century. I trace four editions of the textbook Modern Rhetoric (1949–1979), authored by Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren; I detail how the book was surprisingly innovative for the time, despite its eventual re-entrenchment to a more conservative approach. I argue that the teaching of style serves as a marker of the tensions between disciplines and pedagogical approaches, changing views of students, and competing cultural demands.

Journal: College English
Published: 2012-09-01
DOI: 10.58680/ce201220676
Open Access: Closed
Topics: multimodality race and writing voice and style

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