Integrating rhetorical and literary theories of genre
AJ Devitt - College English, 2000 - publicationsncte.org
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… To examine that claim, I will compare and attempt to integrate the scholarship on one part
of … Although literary theorists tend to emphasize the relationship of the reader and the text
while compositionists tend to emphasize the relationship of the writer and the text, our
common understanding of genre begins with the interactive nature of textual meaning, the
rhetorical triangulation of writer/reader/text, and the embeddedness of those relationships
within context or culture. These complex and complementary intersections can lead to new …
of … Although literary theorists tend to emphasize the relationship of the reader and the text
while compositionists tend to emphasize the relationship of the writer and the text, our
common understanding of genre begins with the interactive nature of textual meaning, the
rhetorical triangulation of writer/reader/text, and the embeddedness of those relationships
within context or culture. These complex and complementary intersections can lead to new …
Claims scholars in English, as a field of study, share a common object of study, specifically the study of discourse. Compares and attempts to integrate the scholarship on one part of discourse--genre--from two subdisciplines of English, literary and composition study.
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