"Performance Studies and the Reinvention of ""I"" in Composition: Moving Myself Beyond a Textual Model"
Tombro, Melissa
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Title
"Performance Studies and the Reinvention of ""I"" in Composition: Moving Myself Beyond a Textual Model"
Author(s)
Tombro, Melissa
Issue Date
2009
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Hawhee, Debra
Department of Study
English
Discipline
English
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Language, Rhetoric and Composition
Language
eng
Abstract
This study reconsiders the category of personal writing by contextualizing and linking it with the field of Performance studies in order to examine its potential critical function in the field of Composition. I examine the history of personal writing in English Studies and the possible expansion of its definition through the application of Performance studies methodology. I extend the scope of personal writing and offer valuable tools to critically analyze and theorize its application in Composition scholarship and pedagogy.
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