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Composing Assemblages: Toward a Theory of Material Embodied Process

Rule, Hannah J.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1377871259

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, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences: English and Comparative Literature.
This project argues that the concept of the writing process can become a dynamic and expansive site for sustained consideration of the physicality of writing. I seek to enliven conceptions of “the writing process” by first disrupting composition studies’ most familiar associations with process, muting in particular the writer’s internal, thinking dialogue at the core of the most familiar process models. I examine writing’s production newly focused on the writer’s body and complexities of the writer’s physical environment. Complicating our sense of “where” writing happens, I bring research attention not just to objects populating writing environments, but also to physical and environmental factors like arrangement, habit, bodily sensations, movement, gesture, pace and rhythm, and even to what are often considered peripheral activities like vacuuming, stretching, walking, surfing social networking sites, etc. This project makes something of the physical pressures and pulls within writing environments, and in so doing, brings rhetorical, theoretical, and empirical research attention to the full physical and material scene of writing through which writing is accomplished. This project’s primary goal is to reveal pictures of material embodied writing processes, the swirl of embodied, material, and affective forces that shape the production of writing just as much as the writer’s cognition or her immersion in social communities.
Laura Micciche, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Russel Durst, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
James Ridolfo, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
168 p.
Rhetoric
writing process; embodiment; materiality; affect; writing environments; mixed methods

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  • Rule, H. J. (n.d.). Composing Assemblages: Toward a Theory of Material Embodied Process [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1377871259

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Rule, Hannah. Composing Assemblages: Toward a Theory of Material Embodied Process. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1377871259.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Rule, Hannah. "Composing Assemblages: Toward a Theory of Material Embodied Process." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati. Accessed APRIL 25, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1377871259

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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