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Book Review: The Performance of Self in Student Writing, by Thomas Newkirk

By: Charles Moran
Publication: The Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 1
Date: Winter 1999

Summary: Moran presents Newkirk's argument that writing about oneself is actually a performance, presenting a "possible" self to an audiences. This writing then, is not private, but social. Newark supports this thesis with much student writing.

 

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