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Experimental Writing in Composition Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture David Bartholomae and Jean Ferguson Carr, Editors Experimental Writing in Composition Aesthetics and Pedagogies Patricia Suzanne Sullivan University of Pittsburgh Press Published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa., 15260 Copyright © 2012, University of Pittsburgh Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Printed on acid-free paper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sullivan, Patricia Suzanne. Experimental writing in composition : aesthetics and pedagogies / Patricia Suzanne Sullivan. p. cm. — (Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture) ISBN 978-0-8229-6208-3 (pbk.) 1. English language—Rhetoric—Study and teaching (Higher) 2. Literature, Experimental. I. Title. PE1404.S857 2012 808’.0420711—dc23 2012022371 To my sister, Catherine, who shared her writing with me and wanted to know what I really thought. Contents acknowledgments IX introduction 1 chapter 1. Experimental Expressivism: Autonomy and Alienation 17 chapter 2. Experimental Writing and the Politics of Academic Discourse: Composition’s Institutions 45 chapter 3. The Crisis of Judgment in Composition: Evaluating Experimental Student Writing 76 chapter 4. Collage: Pedagogies, Aesthetics, and Reading Students’ Texts 103 chapter 5. Postscript: Toward a Multimodal Composition 147 notes 161 works cited 175 index 185 Acknowledgments It isn’t possible to thank everyone I need and want to thank, but I will at- tempt to do so. I would like to thank some of my colleagues and friends who first explicitly welcomed me into the field of composition when they invited me to contribute to proposals for a panel for the Conference on College Composition and Communication: Angie Farkas, Jean Grace, and Linda Huff. Keely Bowers, Juli Parrish, Lisa Schwartz, Chris Warnick, Mari Pena-Jordan Xenakes, and many others provided smart conversation and friendly, often humorous support. Jonathan Arac, Dave Bartholomae, Kathryn Flannery, Catherine Gammon, Joseph Harris, Paul Kameen, John Poulakos, and Mariolina Salvatore were models for me as thoughtful teachers, curious intellectu- als, rigorous readers, and kind colleagues. I especially would like to thank Jim Seitz for being an amazing teacher, administrator, reader, writer, mentor, colleague, and friend and for holding hands with me and chant- ing the alphabet when it was about the most awkward thing for the both ix
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