Landmark Essays on Voice and Writing

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction xi

Peter Elbow (1994)

I ESSAYS

1 Discourse in Life and Discourse in Art 3

Mikhail Bakhtin (1925)

2 The ``Speaking Voice'' and the Teaching of Composition 11

Walker Gibson (1963)

3 Word as Sound 19

Walter Ong (1967)

4 Assignment 19: J. D. Salinger 35

William E. Coles, Jr. (1978)

5 Translator's Introduction to Dissemination 43

Barbara Johnson (1981)

6 When I Was a Young Soldier for the Revolution: Coming to Voice 51

bell hooks (1984)

7 Nobody Mean to Me Than You: And the Future Life of Willie Jordan 59

June Jordan (1985)

8 Voice as Juice: Some Reservations about Evangelic Composition 73

I. Hashimoto (1987)

9 Ethos Versus Persona: Self Representation in Written Discourse 85

Roger D. Cherry (1988)

10 Judging Writing, Judging Selves 107

Lester Faigley (1989)

11 Parentheticals and Personal Voice 121

Arthur L. Palacas (1989)

12 Talking Back to the Speaker 139

Clara Claiborne Park (1989)

13 Looking and Listening for My Voice 157

Toby Fulwiler (1990)

14 In Praise of Sound 165

Don Ihde (1976)

II Two Recent Views

15 Letter to Readers, 1993 177

Carol Gilligan (1993)

16 Voicing the Self Toward a Pedagogy of Resistance in a Postmodern Age 187

Randall Freisinger (1994)

Bibliography 213

Index 219