Composition and/or literature : the end(s) of education / edited by Linda S. Bergmann, Edith M. Baker ; foreword by Winifred Bryan Horner. - Urbana, Ill. : National Council of Teachers of English, c2006. - xvi, 248 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Refiguring English studies .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-230) and index.

Introduction: "What do you folks teach over there, anyway?" / Linda S. Bergmann -- Composition, literary studies, and the end(s) of civic education / Dominic Dellicarpini -- Restructuring in higher education and the relationship between literature and composition / Timothy J. Doherty -- Causes and cures for our professional schizophrenia / Edward A. Kearns -- Rhetoric, literature, and the ruined university / Eve Wiederhold -- In this corner-- / Barry M. Maid -- Along the DMZ between composition and literature / John Heyda -- Whole English, whole teachers: maintaining the balance between rhetorical and literary expertise / Dennis Ciesielski -- Computer-mediated communication and the confluence of composition and literature -- Katherine Fischer, Donna Reiss, and Art Young -- Composing English 102: reframing students' lives through literature / Edith M. Baker -- The missing voice in the debate: what students say about literature in composition / Mary T. Segall -- Afterword: a complex affirmation of reading and writing / Patricia Harkin.

0814108075 (pbk)

2005034170


English language--Composition and exercises--Study and teaching.
English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching (Higher)
Literature--Study and teaching (Higher)

PE1404 / .C622 2006

808/.0420711