College English, Vol. 59, No. 5, September 1997

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• Students, Authorship, and the Work of Composition

  Bruce Horner

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  Abstract: Reviews the dominant pedagogical strategies compositionists have devised in response to the dilemma posed by the author/student writer binary. Reviews Raymond Williams's analysis of the approaches to the "sociality" of authorship. Describes the contradictions in which dominant composition pedagogies have become entangled.

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• The Rhetoric of Anticommunism in Invisible Man

  Barbara Foley

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  Abstract: Examines the workings of an insistent political logic in Ralph Ellison's novel. Traces the novelistic operations, specifically the uses of symbolism, that allow Ellison to substitute rhetoric for reference, myth for history. Tests out some of the generalizing claims about Communism this technique enables Ellison to make. Argues that he chose highly anomalous details to practice typification.

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• Conrads Quarrel with Politics in Nostromo

  Daniel R. Schwarz

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  Abstract: Argues that Joseph Conrad's political novels belie the sweeping and vague rhetoric sometimes used to describe them. States that Conrad, disillusioned with materialism in his political novels, imagines that "industrialism and commercialism" may foster wars between democracies. Contends Conrad's interest is at least divided between a grammar of motives and a grammar of political cause and effect.

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• Editors Choice: Charlie Marlow, Narrative Theorist, Discourses on "Youth"

  James Phelan

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• POEMS

  Julia Kasdorf, Walt McDonald

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• REVIEWS: Cutting across the Grain

  Anne J. Herrington

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• Blurring Distinctions: Media, Culture, and Identity

  Barbie Zelizer

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• COMMENTS & RESPONSE: THREE COMMENTS ON “SLOUCHING TOWARD SCHOLARDOM”

  Caesar, Williams, Ramage / Ziolkowski

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