Toward a feminist rhetoric : the writing of Gertrude Buck

Toward a feminist rhetoric : the writing of Gertrude Buck /

The nature of Gertrude Buck, professor of English at Vassar College from 1897 until her death in 1922, is well-known to anyone interested in the history of composition. Her writing is less well-known, much of it now out of print. JoAnn Campbell gathers together for the first time the major work of t...

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Main Author: Buck, Gertrude, 1871-1922 (Author)
Other Authors: Campbell, JoAnn F. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996
Series:Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture.
Subjects:
Rhetoric > History.
Rhetoric > Study and teaching (Higher)
Report writing > Study and teaching.
Criticism.
Feminism and literature.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • I. THEORY OF ORGANIC EDUCATION
  • The Organic Curriculum
  • The Religious Experience of a Skeptic
  • II. A SOCIAL RHETORIC AND POETICS
  • Genesis: Poetic Metaphor
  • The Present Status of Rhetorical Theory
  • What Does “Rhetoricâ€? Mean?
  • The Social Criticism of Literature
  • III. COMPOSITION INSTRUCTION WITH PURPOSE
  • Recent Tendencies in the Teaching of English Composition
  • The Basis of Exposition
  • Argumentation
  • Marks in Freshman English
  • IV. HOLISTIC GRAMMAR INSTRUCTION
  • The Sentence-DiagramThe Psychology of the Diagram
  • Make-Believe Grammar
  • V. POETRY, PLAYS, AND FEMINIST FICTION
  • Preface to Poems and Plays
  • Poems
  • The Road to Nowhere
  • A Maine Road
  • Fishing
  • Berlin
  • An Epitaph
  • The Return
  • Mother-Love
  • The Girl from the Marsh Croft
  • The Funeral
  • VI. WORKING DOCUMENTS
  • Correspondence and Department Reports
  • Works Cited

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