Connecting composition and literature through the rhetorical situation

• Main Author: Notarangelo, Maria Luisa Douglas
• Format: Others
• Published: CSUSB ScholarWorks 2002
• Subjects: Emily Dickinson 1830-1886 Poem 754 > Criticism and interpretation; English language > Composition and exercises > Study and teaching; English language > Rhetoric > Study and teaching (Secondary); Composition (Language arts); Curriculum-based assessment; Rhetoric and Composition
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2146; https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3147&context=etd-project

This thesis suggests that the idea of the rhetorical situation-a work's text (or language), author, audience, and social context-can serve as a connection between literature, literary theory, and composition studies. Criticisms of Emily Dickinson's Poem 754 are presented, and each is categorized according to the element of the rhetorical situation upon which it focuses.