TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cooper,Marilyn M.
TI  - The animal who writes : a posthumanist composition /Marilyn M. Cooper
T2  - Composition, literacy, and culture
SN  - 9780822986737
AV  - PN145 .A556 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Pittsburgh, Pa.
PB  - University of Pittsburgh Press
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 2; b
N2  - Writing begins with unconscious feelings of something that insistently demands to be responded to, acted upon, or elaborated into a new entity. Writers make things that matter--treaties, new species, software, and letters to the editor--as they interact with other humans of all kinds. As they write, they also continually remake themselves. In The Animal Who Writes, Cooper considers writing as a social practice and as an embodied behavior that is particularly important to human animals. The author argues that writing is an act of composing enmeshed in nature-cultures and is homologous with technology as a mode of making
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