What happened to the bold, kicky promise of writing instruction in the 1960s? The current conservative trend in composition is analyzed allegorically by Geoffrey Sirc in this book-length homage to Charles Deemer's 1967 article, in which the theories and practices of Happenings artists (multi-disciplinary performance pioneers) were used to invigorate college writing. Sirc takes up Deemer's inquiry, moving through the material and theoretical concerns of such pre- and post-Happenings influences as Duchamp and Pollock, situationists and punks, as well as many of the Happenings artists proper. With this book, already a cult classic, began a neo-avant-garde for composition studies. Winner of the Ross W. Winterowd Award for most outstanding book in composition theory.
Author(s): Geoffrey Sirc
Edition: 1
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 328
CONTENTS......Page 6
0 THE STILL-UNBUILT HACIENDA......Page 10
1 “WHAT IS COMPOSITION . . . ?” AFTER DUCHAMP (Notes Toward a General Teleintertext)......Page 42
2 THE AMERICAN ACTION WRITERS......Page 78
3 SCENES FROM LATE SIXTIES COMPOSITION......Page 130
4 WRITING CLASSROOM AS A & P PARKING LOT......Page 216
5 NEVER MIND THE TAGMEMICS, WHERE’S THE SEX PISTOLS?......Page 266
6 ENGLISH COMPOSITION AS A HAPPENING II......Page 294
REFERENCES......Page 326
Bonus Track FUNERAL CEREMONY OF THE ANTI-PROCÈS II A happening for CCCC......Page 342
INDEX......Page 345
ABOUT THE AUTHOR......Page 350
