Composition: History & Theory: 1940 - 1949
Composition Theory: Expressive Rhetoric
Description
James Berlin, in “Rhetoric and Ideology in the Writing Classroom” (1988), claims that expressive rhetoric began to take shape in American institutions after the end of World War II in 1945. The scholars of this movement, according to Berlin, railed against the “elitist rhetoric of liberal culture” which viewed writing as something that arose only from pure genius (484).
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3/13/09