Changing clothes: re-dressing voice for a stylish return

This paper concerns the idea of voice within the field of composition studies and more specifically the canon of style. I examine the current rise of style to a place of prominence within composition and take issue with the exclusion of voice from this resurgence. By looking more closely at the complex definitions surrounding voice as well as the associations and critiques which have worked to repress its contemporary discussion, I demonstrate the unfounded nature of its dismissal. After revealing the ways in which voice is compatible with postmodern thought and usable despite its complexity, I outline some of the pedagogical implications a renewed acceptance of voice would allow. These include a more complete rhetorical vocabulary, a deeper understanding of ethos as it functions in student writing and our increasingly globalized electronic society, and its importance to the field of alternative discourse.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Author dc:creator

• Jones, Deborah Gail

Contributors dc:contributor

• Beech, Jennifer
• Palmer, Heather; Jones, Rebecca
• College of Arts and Sciences

• Voice in literature

Licence

• https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en

Language dc:language

English, eng

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholar.utc.edu/theses/308

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholar.utc.edu:theses-1448