In this Book

Writing With Elbow

Book
edited by Pat Belanoff, Marcia Dickson, Sheryl I. Fontaine, & Charles Moran
2003
Published by: Utah State University Press
summary
 Writing with Elbow is a volume written by leading scholars now working in the field of composition who trace their own scholarship to foundational work done by Peter Elbow over the last thirty years. The book is in that sense a celebration. But it is more than that, too. Elbow and process writing are not without their critics, and the essays collected in Writing with Elbow also test him, extend his work, explore his intellectual forebears, address his critics and contexts, and complicate his legacy across a wide range of issues in current composition research and practice. A thoughtful, comprehensive retrospective on Peter Elbow's legacy, 
Writing with Elbow is a must-read collection for composition scholars, teachers, English educationists, and graduate students.

Table of Contents

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Cover

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

pp. vi-viii

FOREWORD

pp. ix-x

PREFACE To Our Readers

pp. xi-xiii

A PRECISE MACHINE FOR THINKERS A Review of Embracing Contraries

pp. xiv-xv

VISION

pp. xvi-xvi

CLUSTER I Contextualizing and Categorizing

INTERSECTION

pp. 3-6

1 WRITING WITHOUT TEACHERS, WRITING AGAINST THE PAST?

pp. 7-20

2 SENTIMENTAL JOURNEYS Anti-Romanticism and Academic Identity

pp. 21-33

3 ELBOW’S RADICAL AND POSTMODERN POLITICS

pp. 34-47

4 ELBOW AS ICON

pp. 48-58

CLUSTER II Exploring Contraries

INTERSECTION

pp. 61-64

5 PEDAGOGY FOR THE BAMBOOZLED

pp. 65-83

6 NEW USES FOR DOUBTING

pp. 84-94

7 BELIEVING IS NOT A GAME Elbow’s Uneasy Debt to Michael Polanyi

pp. 95-113

8 EAST MEETS WEST Peter Elbow’s “Embracing” of “Contraries” Across Cultures

pp. 114-124

CLUSTER III In The Classroom

INTERSECTION

pp. 127-132

9 RE-IMAGINING “FRONTIER” PEDAGOGY Inside Peter Elbow’s Composition Classroom

pp. 133-143

10 DISSOLVING CONTRARIES

pp. 144-158

11 PLEASURE, POLITICS, FEAR, AND THE FIELD OF COMPOSITION Elbow’s Influence on My Theorizing and Teaching

pp. 159-171

12 SPOKEN RESPONSE Space, Time, And Movies of The Mind

pp. 172-186

13 AN INQUIRY INTO WRITING ASSESSMENT Defining the Elbovian Legacy

pp. 187

CLUSTER IV Voice and the Personal

INTERSECTION Making it Personal

pp. 205-209

14 EMBODIED VOICE Peter Elbow’s Physical Rhetoric

pp. 210-222

15 GONE FISHIN’ Rendering and the Uses of Personal Experience in Writing

pp. 223-238

16 MY FAVORITE BALANCING ACT

pp. 239-252

17 DEAR PETER A Collage in Several Voices

pp. 253-267

18 COLLAGE A Coda

pp. 268-276

REFERENCES

pp. 277-287

CONTRIBUTORS

pp. 288-294

INDEX

pp. 295-297
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