The Rhetoric of Cool: Composition Studies and New Media » (3rd Edition)

Jeff Rice, an assistant professor of English at Wayne State University, is the author of Writing about Cool: Hypertext and Cultural Studies in the Computer Classroom and the co-editor of New Media/New Methods: The Turn From Literacy to Electracy.

The Rhetoric of Cool: Composition Studies and New Media offers a historical critique of composition studies’ rebirth narrative, using that critique to propose a new rhetoric for new media work.

Foreword: Elementary Cool   Gregory L. Ulmer     IX
Acknowledgments     XV
Introduction     1
The Story of Composition Studies and Cool     11
Chora     30
Appropriation     47
Juxtaposition     73
Commutation     93
Nonlinearity     111
Imagery     133
Notes     161
Works Cited and Consulted     169
Index     181