Writing about Literature through Theory by Pennington and Cordell is the first introduction to literature text to embrace both the best of print culture and the opportunities of the digital age, while being grounded in the rhetoric and composition field pertaining to the developmental writing process. It is also unique because it uses literary theory as the foundation for students’ development as critical thinkers and writers. Following Gerald Graff’s ideas in “Disliking Books at an Early Age,”
Writing about Literature through Theory uses theoretical approaches to open literary texts up to students across the disciplines.
Writing about Literature through Theory focuses on writing as a process, and each chapter includes the following:
