Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Preface xi
5. A Precise Machine For Thinkers xiv
6. Vision xvi
7. Cluster I Contextualizing and Categorizing
8. Intersection 3
9. 1 Writing Without Teachers, Writing Against The Past? 7
10. 2 Sentimental Journeys 21
11. 3 Elbow’s Radical And Postmodern Politics 34
12. 4 Elbow As Icon 48
13. Cluster II Exploring Contraries
14. Intersection 61
15. 5 Pedagogy For The Bamboozled 65
16. 6 New Uses For Doubting 84
17. 7 Believing Is Not A Game 95
18. 8 East Meets West 114
19. Cluster III In The Classroom
20. Intersection 127
21. 9 Re-Imagining “Frontier” Pedagogy 133
22. 10 Dissolving Contraries 144
23. 11 Pleasure, Politics, Fear, And The Field Of Composition 159
24. 12 Spoken Response 172
25. 13 An Inquiry Into Writing Assessment 187
26. Cluster IV Voice and the Personal
27. Intersection 205
28. 14 Embodied Voice 210
29. 15 Gone Fishin’ 223
30. 16 My Favorite Balancing Act 239
31. 17 Dear Peter 253
32. 18 Collage 268
33. References 277
34. Contributors 288
35. Index 295