| dc.contributor.author | Steinmann, Heather Marie | |
| dc.description.abstract | Rhetorical and critical theory have both prescribed and proscribed the way
scholars view affect. With the exception of Reader Response Theory, literary and
rhetorical theory tend to use a more long-term and permanent frame of reference when
addressing the emotional relationship between reader and writer. This disquisition
explores a framework where the reader and writer find emotional connection in particular
and emergent times and spaces. This work extends the import of Kairos, as a rhetorical
figure and theory, to contemporary research and theories like Maria Takolander’s
“Energetic Space” and Louise Rosenblatt’s “Aesthetic Reading,” theories that link writer
to reader. Rather than returning to the stagnating debate regarding the societal import of
literature and its inclusion in or exclusion from university course curriculum, this work
will use grounded theory to qualitatively examine students’ affective responses to a novel
over a period of 4 years to describe how the emotional relationship between an author
and audience can be located and marked in the transformative moment. | en_US |
| dc.publisher | North Dakota State University | en_US |
| dc.rights | NDSU Policy 190.6.2 | |
| dc.title | Energetic Space: The Affect of Literature in a Composition Classroom | en_US |
| dc.type | Dissertation | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-03-07T21:04:47Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-03-07T21:04:47Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10365/27689 | |
| dc.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-1600-9988 | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://www.ndsu.edu/fileadmin/policy/190.pdf | en_US |
| ndsu.degree | Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) | en_US |
| ndsu.college | Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences | en_US |
| ndsu.department | English | en_US |
| ndsu.program | English | en_US |
| ndsu.advisor | Mara, Andrew | |
