Alone with Each Other
Literacy and Literature Intertwined
Summary
"As an admirer of Eli Goldblatt’s original, groundbreaking, and beautifully crafted written work in composition, I think this focused book of his collected essays will be extremely compelling reading for people in this field."
—Russel Durst, Professor, University of Cincinnati
"Goldblatt’s perspective, his embeddedness in his place, community, and culture, and his range of topical interests is truly unique. He is a teacher, poet, essayist, activist, literacy scholar, and publisher of great importance. I don’t know anyone else whose work can simultaneously occupy so many vantage points so deeply and well."
—Paula Mathieu, Associate Professor, Boston College
Excerpt
Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- FM Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword Showing Up: Jessica Restaino
- Introduction: Intertwinings
- Part I: Composition Theory and Pedagogy
- Setting the Scene: Conversation between Individual and Group
- Chapter 1 Authority in Its Social Context
- Chapter 2 Alone with Each Other: Conceptions of Discussion in One College Classroom Community. Written with Michael W. Smith.
- Chapter 3 Making Charoset: Teaching by Hand in the Shadow of MOOCs
- Chapter 4 “That Ceremonious Feeling of Growing Up”: The Educational Practice of Bar Mitzvah in the Jewish Children’s Folkshul
- Part II: Community Literacy
- Setting the Scene: All Literacy Is Nested in Communities
- Chapter 5 What Is Community Literacy?
- Chapter 6 Van Rides in the Dark: Literacy as Involvement in a College Literacy Practicum
- Chapter 7 Story to Action: A Conversation about Literacy and Organizing. Interview with Manuel Portillo and Mark Lyons, with Afterword
- Chapter 8 Garden in a Vacant Lot: Growing Thinkers at Tree House Books. Written with Darcy Luetzow and Lauren Macaluso
- Chapter 9 Afterword from Unsustainable
- Chapter 10 Gramsci in Chicago
- Part III: Poetics and Practice
- Setting the Scene: Remembering, Imagining to Know
- Chapter 11 The Poetics of Remembering
- Chapter 12 This Is It
- Chapter 13 From Garret to Tree House from Writing Home: A Literacy Autobiography
- Chapter 14 Imagining the Local: William Carlos Williams, John Dewey, and Community Literacy
- Chapter 15 Wang Wei and Charles Bazerman Compose a Mountain
- Chapter 16 Writing Practice, Not Practice Writing
- Index
- Series Index
Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Names: Goldblatt, Eli, author.
Title: Alone with each other: literacy and literature intertwined / Eli
Goldblatt.
Description: New York: Peter Lang, 2024. | Series: Studies in composition
and rhetoric; vol. 23 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2023040416 (print) | LCCN 2023040417 (ebook) | ISBN
9781636676081 (hardback) | ISBN 9781636677026 (paperback) | ISBN
9781636676098 (ebook) | ISBN 9781636676104 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Composition (Language arts)— Study and teaching. |
Literacy— Study and teaching. | Literature— Study and teaching— Social
aspects. | LCGFT: Essays.
Classification: LCC PN181. G65 2024 (print) | LCC PN181 (ebook) | DDC
808.0071— dc23/eng/20230918
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023040416
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DOI 10.3726/b21832
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About the author
Eli Goldblatt is Professor Emeritus of English at Temple University and former director of New City Writing, an institute focused on community-related literacy projects in North Philadelphia. He earned his PhD in composition and rhetoric at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His scholarly books include Literacy as Conversation: Learning Networks in Philadelphia and Arkansas (written with David Jolliffe); Writing Home: A Literacy Autobiography; and Because We Live Here: Sponsoring Literacy Beyond the College Curriculum, which won the 2008 National Council of Writing Program Administrators’ Best Book Award. He has won best essay of the year awards from both College Composition and Communications and College English. The 2015 Conference on Community Writing presented him with the Outstanding Scholar Award. Goldblatt’s poems have appeared since 1973 in small literary journals such as Hambone, 6ix, Louisiana Review, and Another Chicago Magazine. His forthcoming poetry collection is From Away and earlier books include For Instance, Sessions 1-62, Speech Acts, and Without a Trace. His two books for children are Leo Loves Round and Lissa and the Moon’s Sheep.
About the book
This collection of essays by an award winning scholar and poet will appeal to readers from many areas of English, with particular appeal to grad students preparing to teach writing courses.
“As an admirer of Eli Goldblatt’s original, groundbreaking, and beautifully crafted written work in composition, I think this focused book of his collected essays will be extremely compelling reading for people in this field.”
—Russel Durst, Professor, University of Cincinnati
“Goldblatt’s perspective, his embeddedness in his place, community, and culture, and his range of topical interests is truly unique. He is a teacher, poet, essayist, activist, literacy scholar, and publisher of great importance. I don’t know anyone else whose work can simultaneously occupy so many vantage points so deeply and well.”
—Paula Mathieu, Associate Professor, Boston College
This eBook can be cited
This edition of the eBook can be cited. To enable this we have marked the start and end of a page. In cases where a word straddles a page break, the marker is placed inside the word at exactly the same position as in the physical book. This means that occasionally a word might be bifurcated by this marker.
Even if mind never operates as slowly as the speed of starlight, your future dwells gracefully in the space of your imagining.
—Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, A Treatise on Stars
Contents
Foreword Showing Up: Jessica Restaino
Part I: Composition Theory and Pedagogy
Setting the Scene: Conversation between Individual and Group
Chapter 1 Authority in Its Social Context
Chapter 3 Making Charoset: Teaching by Hand in the Shadow of MOOCs
Setting the Scene: All Literacy Is Nested in Communities
Chapter 5 What Is Community Literacy?
Chapter 6 Van Rides in the Dark: Literacy as Involvement in a College Literacy Practicum
Chapter 9 Afterword from Unsustainable
Part III: Poetics and Practice
Setting the Scene: Remembering, Imagining to Know
Chapter 11 The Poetics of Remembering
Chapter 13 From Garret to Tree House from Writing Home: A Literacy Autobiography
Chapter 14 Imagining the Local: William Carlos Williams, John Dewey, and Community Literacy
Chapter 15 Wang Wei and Charles Bazerman Compose a Mountain
Acknowledgments
In a book covering so many years, I could never thank all the people who have helped me along the way. I’ll restrict myself to those who have had a direct hand in shaping this collection. Thanks to David Blakesley and Rachael Levay for early encouragement. Great appreciation for Alice Horning, who has been enthusiastic and gracious throughout the manuscript submission and preparation process. Gratitude to Deborah Brandt for her advice and understanding all along the way and to Jess Restaino for her good words and collaboration on this and other projects. I owe Keith Gilyard and Carmen Kynard thanks for valuable words at just the right time. I’m grateful to wise friends Sue Wells, Peter Murphy, David Bushnell, Steve Newman, Keely McCarthy, Russel Durst, Dylan Dryer, Ben Olshin, Paula Mathieu, Linda Adler-Kassner, Steve Parks, John Landreau, Julia Blumenreich, Melody Wright, Grimaldi Baez and Michael Smith. My words would mean little without my brother Aaron and sister Sharon, our son Leo, daughter-in-law Jenny, and their son Andre. My wife and companion Wendy Osterweil gives me the love, laughter, and wonder to walk on together.
I gratefully acknowledge the following publications where essays in this book originally appeared:
“Authority in Its Social Context.” ’Round My Way: Authority and Double-Consciousness in Three Urban High School Writers. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995.
“Alone with Each Other: Conceptions of Discussion in One College Classroom Community,” Written with Michael W. Smith. Linguistics and Education 7.4 (1995): 327–348. Copyright Elsevier.
“Making Charoset: Teaching by Hand in the Shadow of MOOCs.” Another Word from U of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center Blog. April 2013.
“‘That ceremonious feeling of growing up’: The Educational Practice of Bar Mitzvah in the Jewish Children’s Folkshul.” Jewish Rhetorics: History, Theory, Practice. Ed. Janice Fernheimer and Michael Bernard-Donals. Brandeis UP, 2014. 249–264.
“What Is Community Literacy?” A Rhetoric for Writing Program Administrators. Ed. Rita Malenczyk. Anderson SC: Parlor Press, 2013. 289–300.
“Van Rides in the Dark: Literacy as Involvement in a College Literacy Practicum.” Journal for Peace and Justice Studies 6.1 (1995): 77–94.
“Story to Action: A Conversation about Literacy and Organizing.” Interview with Manuel Portillo and Mark Lyons, with afterword. Community Literacy 2.2 (Spring 2008): 45–66.
“Garden in a Vacant Lot: Growing Thinkers at Tree House Books.” Written with Darcy Luetzow and Lauren Macaluso. Service-Learning in Literacy Education. Eds. Peter Smagorinsky and Valerie Kinloch. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, 2014. 27–44.
“Afterword.” Unsustainable: Re-Imagining Community Literacy, Public Writing, Service-Learning, and the University. Eds. Jessica Restaino and Laurie Cella. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013. 263–268.
“Gramsci in Chicago.” Review. Community Literacy 12.1 (Fall 2017): 97–99.
“The Poetics of Remembering” (Revised and updated). Judaic Perspectives in Rhetoric and Composition. Eds. Andrea Greenbaum and Deborah Holdstein. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton P, 2008. 57–70.
“This Is It.” Writing on the Edge 16.1 (Fall 2005): 51–60.
“From Garret to Tree House” from Writing Home: A Literacy Autobiography (S. Illinois UP, 2012). 1–7.
Details
- Pages
- XXII, 282
- Year
- 2024
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781636676098
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781636676104
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9781636677026
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9781636676081
- DOI
- 10.3726/b21832
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2024 (March)
- Keywords
- Literacy literature community literacy poetics composition/rhetoric Writing Studies teaching practicum
- Published
- New York, Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, Oxford, 2024. XXII, 282 pp.
