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Richard E. Miller. Composing English Studies: Towards a Social History of the Discipline.

Miller, Richard E. "Composing English Studies: Towards a Social History of the Discipline." CCC 45.2 (1994): 164-179.

Abstract:

Miller first reviews how histories of English Studies demarcate a hierarchical division of labor where intellectual work is deemed the province of literary studies not composition. He suggests an alternative history, one which deem the student work rather than literary text would serve as the principal object of study in the composition field, one he deems the "single most institutional function" of English departments, one rife with positive political possibilities of discussion, and one that would "provide a common ground" upon which the relationship between composition and literary studies might be reworked.

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Strain, Margaret M. "Toward a Hermeneutic Model of Composition History: Robert Carlsen's 'The State of the Profession 1961-1962.'" Journal of Advanced Composition. Winter 93: 217-240.
Varnum, Robin. "The History of Composition: Reclaiming Our Lost Generations." Journal of Advanced Composition. Winter 92: 39-56.
Watkins, Evan. Work Time: English Departments and the Circulation of Cultural Value. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1989.
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