Thursday, December 07, 2006
Composition, 1970 style
I'm browsing issues of CCC from 1970. Some of the best parts are the ads. It's easy to see why Sirc has a certain nostalgia for late-60s composition. Textbooks called "The Rhetoric of No" and "NON-BOOKs." Something happened around 1975 or so. (And that's the topic of a chapter I'm working on right about now.)
The ads themselves:
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Were these seemingly transgressive textbooks coming from the "center" or from the "margins"? I'm wondering how mainstream were the critiques of the drudgery.
Sounds like great research--look forward to reading it.
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