Beyond Bakhtin: Towards a Cultural Stylistics

Paton, Fiona

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“…Examples of such studies include Peter Elbow (1989) Darsie Bowden (1995, and Mimi Schwartz's (2001) work on "voice"; Richard Marius (1996) and Pat C. Hoy II and Robert DiYanni's (1996) essays on "story"; Hoy's studies of "idea" (1989,2001); Gordon Harvey's (1994) examination of "presence"; Thomas Recchio's (1989) and Fiona Paton's (2000) work on "dialogue"; and Chris Anderson (1988), Candace Spigelman (2001), and Jim Corder's (1989) essays on "evidence." These studies' approaches to reading essays contribute to the design of this book's methodology and conceptual framework.…”

Section: T H E B E S T a M E R I Ca N E S S Ay Smentioning

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Crafting Presence: The American Essay and the Future of Writing Studies

Wallack¹

2017

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Crafting Presence: The American Essay and the Future of Writing Studies

Wallack¹

2017

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Dialoging with Bigger Thomas: A Reception History of Richard Wright’sNative Son

McCann

2019

Advances in the History of Rhetoric

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This essay develops a reception history of the Communist Party of the USA’s (CPUSA) responses to Richard Wright’s Native Son. Drawing on what Fiona Paton calls “cultural stylistics,” I argue that the voices residing in Native Son itself participated in the broader interpretive politics surrounding the novel. Specifically, Wright’s primary character, Bigger Thomas, functioned as a disruptive performance of blackness that revealed the limitations of communist orthodoxy for bringing expression to black subjectivity. I conclude by reflecting on the ways cultural stylistics poses salient ethical challenges to all of us who engage in the labor of critique.

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An Enriching Methodology

Halasek

2005

Written Communication

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In "Dialogic Origin," Mikhail Bakhtin-as teacher-researcher and theorist-presents readers with a remarkable essay on teaching grammar and style to 7th-year students (roughly equivalent to 10th graders in the U.S. educational system). In doing so, Bakhtin employs some of his most notable concepts (among them dialogism and "hero") as informing and generative principles of writing pedagogy. Modern readers will find much to value as Bakhtin illustrates contextualized grammar instruction, defines grammar as an element of style, proposes innovative teaching methods, and advocates for theorybased pedagogy. Despite these significant similarities, the essay relies exclusively on stylistics, ignoring the demonstrable rhetorical effects of the stylistic choices illustrated in the pedagogy he outlines. In perhaps his most illuminating move, Bakhtin introduces his notion of hero directly into the language arts classroom, illustrating the concept as fundamental even to the grammar and style of language in everyday and academic (not simply literary) contexts.

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Beyond Bakhtin: Towards a Cultural Stylistics

Cited by 9 publications

References 8 publications

Crafting Presence: The American Essay and the Future of Writing Studies

Crafting Presence: The American Essay and the Future of Writing Studies

Dialoging with Bigger Thomas: A Reception History of Richard Wright’sNative Son

An Enriching Methodology

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