College English, Vol. 63, No. 2, November 2000

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• Dialectics of Self: Structure and Agency as the Subject of English

  Alan W. France

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  Abstract: Argues that both composition and literary studies have a common pedagogical vocation and that by harvesting some very general insights from two decades of cultural critique, English departments can develop curricula that will resolve a good deal of the conflict between literature and composition and improve instruction in both.

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• Beyond Bakhtin: Toward a Cultural Stylistics

  Fiona Paton

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  Abstract: Argues that both composition and literary studies have a common pedagogical vocation and that by harvIndicates how current stylistic criticism might engage ideological issues by more fully developing M. Bakhtin's ideas through an approach called cultural stylistics. Notes that Bakhtin's own work was very much concerned with the divorce between ideological and formalist analysis, and his "sociological stylistics" was intended to synthesize the two.

• The Narrative Construction of Cyberspace: Reading Neuromancer, Reading Cyberspace Debates

  Daniel Punday

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  Abstract: Suggests that William Gibson offers a way to negotiate the conventional discursive elements used within online communication. Notes that cyberspace discourse appears to be at its best not when it tries to minimize the effects of the conventional narratives from which it is built, but instead when it exploits those discourses most fully to reveal their sources and conflicts.

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• Opinion: The Rhetoric of Reproof

  Leonard A. Podis and JoAnne M. Podis

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  Abstract: Questions the rhetoric of reproof and asserts the authors' belief that the practice of scholarly critique is generally salutary. Hopes to stand as a testimony to the firm belief in the importance of critique in the ongoing scholarly conversation. Considers ethical problems with (and use of) the rhetoric of reproof, and ethical awareness and the scholarly conversation.

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• REVIEW: Structure and Possibility: New Scholarship about Students-Called-Basic-Writers

  Linda Adler-Kassner

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