Selected Essays of Jim W. Corder: Pursuing the Personal in Scholarship, Teaching, and Writing

Editor(s): James S. Baumlin, Keith D. Miller

Foreword by Wendy Bishop

Recent, renewed interest in the personal in writing and teaching suggests that the late Jim Corder still has much to tell us. Editors James Baumlin and Keith Miller argue that Corder’s yet-to-be-absorbed theory and scholarly praxis can contribute significantly to current debates in composition studies, especially because Corder struggles to move beyond the impasse facing social constructionism and expressivism even as he seeks their rapprochement.

To that end, the first section of the book—consisting of nine of Corder’s most important essays, including his Braddock Award–winning “What I Learned at School” and his “New Introduction to Psychoanalysis”—draws together the broad range of his concerns, displaying his unflagging interest in questions of place, memory, and ethos in writing and his willingness to challenge conventional divisions of discipline and genre.

The second section offers three never-before-published excerpts from some of Corder’s most personal and compelling late work, including his timely meditation on place and its relation to rhetoric, “Places in the Mind.” An annotated bibliography of Corder’s writings rounds out what Wendy Bishop in her foreword calls an important collection by a writer “inventively ahead of his time.”

327 pp. 2004. College. ISBN 0-8141-4309-1.
No. 43091

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ISBN: 0-8141-4309-1

Grade Level(s): College