First-Year Writing and the Somatic Exchange

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-61289-108-8
Verlag: Hampton Press

Buch, Englisch, 278 Seiten, Hardback, Gewicht: 499 g

The Affective Turn in writing studies, the author argues, has actually gone through two phases, or three, if one counts the expressionist work on “finding one’s true voice” that he dubs Phase Zero. Phase One runs from Alice Glarden Brand through Sue McLeod, and contains mostly empirical studies of affect in the classroom; Phase Two begins with Lynn Worsham’s “Going Postal” and contains mostly theoretical studies of viral ecologies of affect.<br><br>This book offers a signal contribution to Phase Two, re-theorising affective ecologies as “somatic exchanges” and exploring their operation—and how to enhance their operation—in the writer-reader relationship, the classroom, and writing programmes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Robinson, Douglas

Über Autor(innen)

<strong>Douglas Robinson</strong> is an American academic scholar, translator, and fiction-writer who is best known for his work in translation studies, but has published widely on various aspects of human communication and social interaction (American literature, literary theory, linguistic theory, gender theory, writing theory, rhetorical theory). Robinson is currently Dean of the Arts Faculty at Hong Kong Baptist University.