Writing Theory and Critical Theory, Vol. 3 Book

	Preface to the Series
	Introduction	1
	Composition as a Cultural Artifact: Rethinking History as Theory	19
	"On a topic of your own choosing ..."	33
	Reading and Writing in the Classroom and the Profession	53
	On Conventions and Collaboration: The Open Road and the Iron Cage	73
	Rhetoric, Social Construction, and Gender: Is It Bad to Be Sentimental?	96
	The Doubleness of Writing and Permission to Lie	109
	Theory, Theory Talk, and Composition	127
	The Rhetoric of Theory	141
	Science, Theory, and the Politics of Empirical Studies in the English Department	148
	Teaching Composition and Reading Lacan: An Exploration in Wild Analysis	159
	Is There a Life in This Text? Reimagining Narrative	179
	Essays and Experience, Time and Rhetoric	195
	Street Fights over the Impossibility of Theory: A Report of a Seminar	212
	Making a Federal Case out of Difference: The Politics of Pedagogy, Publicity, and Postponement	236
	A Writing Program Administrator's Response	262
	Topic or Pedagogy?	271
	Narrating Conflict	278
	On the (Pendulum-)Swinging Eighties	289
	My Life in Theory	300
	Learning to Live with Your Past and Liking It	306
	"Gender and Reading" Revisited	313
	A Letter to the Editors	319
	"Rhetoric Is Politics," Said the Ancient. "How Much So," I Wonder	327
	Constructing Narratives, Seeking Change	335
	Theory, Theories, Politics, and Journeys	341
	Works Cited	348
	Index	369