ELBOW’S RADICAL AND POSTMODERN POLITICS

• Published in: Writing With Elbow p. 34
• Main Author: Elizabeth A. Flynn
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Utah State University Press 01.04.2003
• Subjects: Antimodernism; Antiscience; Applied philosophy; Art genres and movements; Art history; Arts; Axiology; Economic disciplines; Economics; Education; Educational personnel; Educators; Employment; Enlightenment; Esotericism; Ethics; Expressivism; Formal education; Humanities instruction; Labor economics; Language arts; Liberalism; Literary criticism; Literary history; Literary studies; Literature; Marxism; Metaethics; Modernist art; Occupations; Pedagogy; Philosophy; Philosophy of science; Political ideologies; Political philosophy; Political science; Postmodern literature; Practical theology; Radicalism; Religion; Religious experience philosophy; Socialism; Teachers; Theology; Writing instruction; Writing teachers
• ISBN: 9780874214307; 0874214300
• DOI: 10.2307/j.ctt46nxbc.10

The work of expressivist (sometimes referred to asexpressionist) compositionists in general and Peter Elbow in particular has been criticized for its attention to the personal dimensions of writing and to the individual rather than to social or political dimensions of reality, often by critics with a Marxist or Marxist feminist orientation. James Berlin in “Rhetoric and Ideology in the Writing Class,” for instance, finds that, for Elbow, power resides within the individual. And although Berlin admits that Elbow’s pedagogy includes a denunciation of economic, political, and social pressures to conform, Berlin sees that the form of resistance implied by