Thursday, November 15, 2007

James A. Berlin


James Berlin posits that ideology is at the center of any writing classroom in his essay that appears in T.R. Johnson’s Teaching Composition: Background Readings. His philosophical predilections are definitely Marxist, as he outlines his theories based on works by Ray Williams, Jorge Lorain, Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, and Goran Therborn. Berlin discusses Cognitive Rhetoric, Expressionistic Rhetoric, and Social-Epistemic Rhetoric and their particular political, social, and cultural implication within the writing classroom. I have listed some additional articles written by Berlin below…

“Cultural Studies." Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition. Ed. Theresa Enos. NY: Garland, 1996. 154-56.
“Composition Studies and Cultural Studies: Collapsing Boundaries." Into the Field: Sites of Composition Studies. Ed. Anne Ruggles Gere. NY: MLA,1993. 99-116.
"Composition and Cultural Studies." Composition and Resistance. Eds. Hurlbert, C. Mark and Michael Blitz. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1991.

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