Saying and silence: listening to composition with Bakhtin

"Not theory ... but a sense of theory" : the superaddressee and the contexts of Eden -- Aesopian predicaments, or Biting my tongue as I write : a defense of rhetorical ambiguity -- Voice reprised : three Etudes for a dialogic understanding -- Sounding the other who speaks in me : toward a dialogic understanding of imitation -- Pictures at an exhibition : Bakhtin, composition, and the problem of the outside -- Dialogue and critique : Bakhtin and the cultural studies writing classroom

[I]f there is a single, guiding assumption that underwrites these essays, it is that within the dialogues we commence with our students, our publics, and ourselves, there is ample warrant for hope?hope that through the words we share, the world we share likewise can be revised to include more voices, can be reimagined as a meeting place where, in Terry Eagleton's phrase, people feel less helpless, fearful, and bereft of meaning'' (184)