Changing the Subject in English Class: Discourse and the Constructions of Desire

From: Composition Studies | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Composition Studies, Volume 31, Number 1, Spring 2003

Changing the Subject in English Class: Discourse and the Constructions of Desire by Marshall W. Alcorn, Jr. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2002.

Changing the Subject is a provocative read. Marshall Alcorn's project is to introduce talk about desire into the discourse of composition. Put another way, he wants composition teachers to enlarge their understanding of the forces that move human beings to thought and action. If modernism celebrated the persuasive force of reason, and postmodernism foregrounded the pull of ideology, in Alcorn's ...

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