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3. The Practice of Revision in Composition Studies

Author : David Hyman

Published in: Revision and the Superhero Genre

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter draws parallels between superhero revision and revision within composition theory. After examining Ezra Pound’s infamous revisions of Eliot’s The Waste Land, several key stages in the conceptualization of revision will be explored, from Aristotelian rhetoric’s lasting and influential notion of revision as error, to Donald Murray and other early Expressivists’ sense of revision as an act of creative discovery and its influence on early process writing, to the post-process critique of process writing’s failure to account for the contingent and constructed nature of revision as a social practice. This critique leads to speculations regarding what the practice of textual revision can look like in the wake of the shift away from revision as part of the writing process towards a view of revision as a stance of resisting or negotiating identity positions relative to cultural and institutional authority.

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Title: The Practice of Revision in Composition Studies
Author: David Hyman
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Revision and the Superhero Genre
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-64758-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-64759-3

Copyright Year: 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64759-3_3