This essay questions the digital humanities' dependence on interpretation and critique as strategies for reading and responding to texts. Instead, the essay proposes suggestion as a digital rhetorical practice, one that does not replace hermeneutics, but instead offers alternative ways to respond to texts. The essay uses the Occupy movement as an…

We argue that composition scholarship's defenses of language differences in student writing reinforce dominant ideology's spatial framework conceiving language difference as deviation from a norm of sameness. We argue instead for adopting a temporal-spatial framework defining difference as the norm of utterances, and defining languages,…

In this essay, the author argues that, within the current realm of higher education in the United States, creative writing and creative writing studies are two distinct enterprises-- although they do overlap at some significant points--and should be recognized as such. "Creative writing" is the academic enterprise of hiring successful…

Stanley Fish in his new book ["Save the World on Your Own Time" (New York: Oxford UP,2008)] says that composition studies presents "the clearest example" of what is desperately wrong in the academy, because in writing classrooms, he says, "more often than not anthologies of provocative readings take center stage and the actual teaching of writing…

The author responds to the essays in this special issue by noting that they emphasize the importance of careful, complex comparisons between Western and Chinese rhetorical traditions.

In recent years, memoir and the entire genre of creative nonfiction have received some negative publicity and some harsh criticism. Many have dismissed the "fourth genre," as it's called, as a form for the narcissistic and self-involved. Matters certainly are not helped when high-profile writers of memoir are revealed to be frauds and fiction…

In this article, the author argues that Emerson repudiated the formalism of nineteenth century belletristic, mechanistic, reason-centered, American rhetoric influenced by Hugh Blair. Instead Emerson promoted a rhetoric with imagination at its center, which calls for civic duty. (Contains 33 notes.)

Three papers facetiously dealing with college administration. These papers are part of a book by the above named author, a professor at New York University. (MF)

Suggests that the essay, despite its second-class status in academia, is a compelling form. Argues that articles have replaced essays as a result of poststructuralist criticism and its preoccupation with ontological questions, resulting in a set of highly technical terms and conceptually difficult problems which exclude the casual reader. (ARH)

Discusses why the unit of discourse for literary criticism is the essay. (DD)

In this article, the author explores the confluence of discourses surrounding disability, identity, and institutional writing to better understand the rhetorical politics of disability. She argues that a fresh theoretical frame is needed to understand the ways in which students rhetorically manage "risky" bodily identities, particularly in…

Examines Rudolf B. Gottfried's attack ( Our New Poet: Archetypal Criticism and The Fairie Queene," PMLA," vol. 83, no. 5, pp. 1362-77) on Frye's Anatomy of Criticism" and The Structure of Imagery in The Fairie Queene" and A. C. Hamilton's The Structure of Allegory in The Fairie Queene." (SW)

Offers an analysis of the work submitted for publication to "College English." (RL)

Claims that the essay stands apart from both poetry and prose fiction, as well as from other forms of academic writing, in its emphasis upon the actual situation of the writer, and thus upon its personal nature. Argues for its relevance and inclusion in the academic community. (RAE)

Evaluates the control that form exerts over freedom" in an essay devoted to literary criticism. (Author/RD)