First-Year Writing and the Somatic Exchange

by Douglas Robinson

The affective turn in writing studies, the author argues, has actually gone through two phases. or three if one counts the expressionist work on "finding one's voice" that he dubss Phase Zero. Phase one runs from Alice Glarden Brand through Sue McLeod, and contains mostly empirical studies of affect in the classroom; Phase Two begins with Lynn Worsham's "Going Postal" and contains mostly theoretical studies of viral ecologies of affect. This book offers a signal contribution to Phase two retheorizing affective ecologies as somatic exchanges and exploring their operation and how to enchance their operation - in the writer reader relationship the classroom and the writing program

262 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2012