English Composition As A Happening

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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 Deemers 1967 article in which the theories and practices of Happenings artists (multi-disciplinary performance pioneers) were used to invigorate college writing. Sirc takes up Deemers 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.