First-Year Writing and the Somatic Exchange
	Quantity in Basket:none Code: 978-1-61289-108-8 Price:$67.50 Title: First-Year Writing and the Somatic Exchange Author(s): Douglas Robinson Publish Date: September 2012 Pages: 278 Format: Cloth
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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 true voice” that he dubs 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 enhance their operation—in the writer-reader relationship, the classroom, and writing programs. Preface. INTRODUCTION: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE AFFECTIVE TURN. Phase Zero: Peter Elbow as Protoaffective Writing Theorist. Phase One: From Alice Brand to Susan McLeod. Phase Two: Beginning with Lynn Worsham. PART I: THE SOMATICS OF AFFECT AND WRITING. The Hierarchical Structure of the Psyche: The Body-Becoming-Mind. The Affective Storage of What Is Learned Through Experience: Somatic Markers. Affective Contagion: The Somatic Transfer. The Circulatory Ecology of Affect: The Somatic Exchange. PART II: THE SOMATICS OF READING AND WRITING. KRISTIE S. FLECKENSTEIN ON “WRITING BODIES”. Toward a Somatics of Writing. Third: Evoking the Writer by Evoking the Reader. Second: Permeable Textworlds. First: Visceral Rhythms. PART III: CLASSROOM BODIES. Teacher Immediacy. Huggybear Ideosomatics. Ideosomatized Disgust. The Deviant Teacher Body. De-Oedipalized Youth Cracking Up. PART IV: (ENGINEERING)/(WHAT KEEPS PREVENTING) A WRITING EPIDEMIC. Sticky Messages. The Power of Context 1: Writing Programs. The Power of Context 2: Textbooks. Permission-Givers. Conclusion: Ideosomatic Resistance. Notes. Works Cited. Author Index. Subject Index.