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Emotion and Composition

FAQ: What are connections between Emotion and Composition?

Working bibliography (from WPA-L thread on “Emotion & Composition”): Assembled by Ian Montgomery, October 13, 2005

Albrecht-Crane, Christa. “An Affirmative Theory of Desire.” JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 23.1 (2003).

Alcorn, Marshall W. Changing the Subject in English Class: Discourse and the Construction of Desire. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2002.

Anderson, Charles M., and Marian M. Maccurdy, eds. Writing and Healing: Toward an Informed Practice. Urbana, Ill.: NCTE, 1999.

Bleich, David. Know and Tell: A Writing Pedagogy of Disclosure, Genre, and Membership. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1998.

Bleich, David. Readings and Feelings: An Introduction to Subjective Criticism. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1975.

Brand, Alice G., and Richard L. Graves, eds. Presence of Mind: Writing and the Domain Beyond the Cognitive. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1994.

Davis, Debra Diane. Breaking Up (At) Totality: A Rhetoric of Laugher. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2000.

Flaherty, Alice W. The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer’s Block, and the Creative Brain. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.

Glenn, Cheryl. Unspoken: A Rhetoric of Silence. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2004.

Haswell, Richard H. “Bound Forms in Freewriting: The Issue of Organization.” In Nothing Begins With N: New Investigations of Freewriting. Belanoff, Pat, Peter Elbow, and Sheryl I. Fontaine, eds. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1991. 32–68.

Haynes, Cynthia. “pathos@play.prosthetic.emotion.” Works and Days: Essays in the Socio-Historical Dimensions of Literature and the Arts. 13.1–2 [25–26] (1995): 261–76.

Hidi, Suzanne E., and John A McLaren. “Motivational Factors and Writing: The Role of Topic Interestingness.” European Journal of Psychology of Education 6.2 (1991): 187–197.

Johnson, T. R. A Rhetoric of Pleasure: Prose Style and Today’s Composition Classroom. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton / Cook, 2003.

Larson, Reed. “Emotional Scenarios in the Writing Process.” In When a Writer Can’t Write. Ed. Mike Rose. New York: Guilford, 1985.

Lauber, Lynn. Listen to Me: Writing Life into Meaning. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004.

Levine, Mel. The Myth of Laziness. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.

Lupton, Ellen, and J. Abbott Miller. Design, Writing, Research: Writing on Graphic Design. New York: Phaidon, 1999.

McLeod, Susan H. “Some Thoughts About Feelings: The Affective Domain and the Writing Process.” College Composition and Communication 38 (1987): 426–435.

McLeod, Susan H. Notes on the Heart: Affective Issues in the Writing Classroom. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1997.

Micciche, Laura, and Dale Jacobs. A Way to Move: Rhetorics of Emotion and Composition Studies. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2003.

Nienkamp, Jean. Internal Rhetorics: Toward a History and Theory of Self-Persuasion. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2001.

Perl, Sondra. Felt Sense: Writing With the Body. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2004.

Richmond, Kia J. “Reflections of/on the Teacher: Emotions and Disclosure in the Writing Classroom.” Diss. Illinois State U, 2001.

Richmond, Kia J. “Repositioning Emotions in Composition Studies.” Composition Studies 30.1 (2002): 67–82.

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity. Durham: Duke UP, 2003.

Shields, Stephanie A. Speaking from the Heart: Gender and the Social Meaning of Emotion. New York: Cambridge UP, 2002.

Worsham, Lynn. “Going Postal: Pedagogic Violence and the Schooling of Emotion.” JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 18.2 (1998).