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The Evolution of College English: Literacy Studies from the Puritans to the Postmoderns (Pitt Comp Literacy Culture)
Thomas Miller
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Paperback. Series: Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: CFC; JNKC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Thomas P. Miller defines college English studies as literacy studies and examines how it has evolved in tandem with broader developments in literacy and the literate. He maps out \u201cfour corners\u201d of English departments: literature, language studies, teacher education, and writing studies. Miller identifies their development with broader changes in the technologies and economies of literacy that have redefined what students write and read, which careers they enter, and how literature represents their experiences and aspirations.
Miller locates the origins of college English studies in the colonial transition from a religious to an oratorical conception of literature. A belletristic ... Read more
Thomas P. Miller defines college English studies as literacy studies and examines how it has evolved in tandem with broader developments in literacy and the literate. He maps out \u201cfour corners\u201d of English departments: literature, language studies, teacher education, and writing studies. Miller identifies their development with broader changes in the technologies and economies of literacy that have redefined what students write and read, which careers they enter, and how literature represents their experiences and aspirations.
Miller locates the origins of college English studies in the colonial transition from a religious to an oratorical conception of literature. A belletristic ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Condition
New
Series
Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Pittsburgh PA, United States
ISBN
9780822961161
SKU
V9780822961161
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About Thomas Miller
Thomas P. Miller is associate provost for faculty affairs at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He is the author of The Formation of College English: Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the British Cultural Provinces, a winner of the Mina P. Shaughnessy Priz
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