Lentricchia's argument , in its turn , draws from Kenneth Burke's rhetoric theory of " language as symbolic action " to propose that " the substance of ideology " ( 44 ) is " revealed to us textually and therefore must be grasped ( read ) ...
This book introduces readers to the author's brand of revising fiction - a process in which a story's words, structure, even its very meaning may change as it grows stronger.
In Rewriting, a textbook for the undergraduate classroom, Joseph Harris draws the college writing student away from static ideas of thesis, support, and structure, and toward a more mature and dynamic understanding.
The second edition introduces remixing as an additional signature move and is updated with new attention to digital writing, which both extends and rethinks the ideas of earlier chapters.
Examines the tendency of post-World War II writers to rewrite earlier narratives by Poe, Melville, Hawthorne, and others.