Style in Composition & Rhetoric Book

Introduction: The Stylistic (Re) Turn in Rhetoric and Composition 1

Part 1 The Rise and Fall of the Study of Style 11

Introduction 13

The Rise 18

1 On Prose Style Aristotle 18

2 From Orator Cicero 37

3 Book X, Chapter 2 Quintilian 54

The Fall 59

4 Apologies and Accommodations: Imitation and the Writing Process Frank M. Farmer Phillip K. Arrington 59

5 The Erasure of the Sentence Robert J. Connors 82

6 Whatever Happened to the Paragraph? Mike Duncan 108

Part 2 Stylistic Influences and Debates 133

Introduction 135

7 Theories of Style and Their Implications for the Teaching of Composition Louis T. Milic 140

8 A Generative Rhetoric of the Sentence Francis Christensen 146

9 The Relation of Grammar to Style Virginia Tufte 155

10 Closing the Books on Alchemy Martha Kolln 165

11 Use Definite, Specific, Concrete Language Richard Ohmann 177

12 Defining Complexity Joseph M. Williams 186

Part 3 Style and Pedagogy 203

Introduction 205

13 Teaching Style Edward P.J. Corbett 209

14 Grammars of Style: New Options in Composition Winston Weathers 219

15 Revitalizing Style: Toward a New Theory and Pedagogy Elizabeth D. Rankin 239

16 Making a Case for Rhetorical Grammar Laura R. Micciche 250

17 Down from the Haymow: One Hundred Years of Sentence-Combining Shirley K. Rose 267

Part 4 Style and Culture 277

Introduction 279

18 "How I Got Ovuh": African World View and Afro-American Oral Tradition Geneva Smitherman 283

19 Professing Multiculturalism: The Politics of Style in the Contact Zone Min-Zhan Lu 303

20 The Feminine Style: Theory and Fact Mary P. Hiatt 318

21 The Cultures of Literature and Composition: WhatCould Each Learn from the Other? Peter Elbow 324

Part 5 Style and the Future 337

Introduction 339

22 Ancient and Contemporary Compositions That "Come Alive": Clarity as Pleasure, Sound as Magic T. R. Johnson 343

23 The National Prose Problem Kathryn Flannery 369

24 Style and the Public Intellectual: Rethinking Composition in the Public Sphere Paul Butler 389

25 Sounding the Other Who Speaks in Me: Toward a Dialogic Understanding of Imitation Frank Farmer 410

26 Style/Substance Matrix Richard A. Lanham 428

Additional Readings 449

About the Editor 457

Index 461