Invention as a Social Act (Studies in Writing and Rhetoric)
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The act of inventing relates to the process of inquiry to creativity to poetic and aesthetic invention. Building on the work of rhetoricians philosophers linguists and theorists in other disciplines Karen Burke LeFevre challenges a widely-held view of rhetorical invention as the act of an atomistic individual. She proposes that invention be viewed as a social act in which individuals interact dialectically with society and culture in distinctive ways. Even when the primary agent of invention is an individual invention is pervasively affected by relationships of that individual to others through language and other socially shared symbol systems. LeFevre draws implications of a view of invention as a social act for writers researchers and teachers of writing.
