When Your Way Gets Dark: A Rhetoric of the Blues

by Jeffrey Carroll

Overview

Uses rhetorical and literary theory to recover the power of the blues in its cultural tradition. Describes effective strategies for teaching the blues to students.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781602354630
Publisher:	Parlor Press, LLC
Publication date:	01/01/2005
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	204
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Jeffrey Carroll is Professor of English and Director of the Graduate Program in English at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, where he teaches courses on the blues, rhetoric and composition, and the American novel. He is the author of two textbooks, Dialogs: Reading and Writing in the Disciplines and The Active Reader (with Anne Ruggles Gere), as well as a novel, Climbing to the Sun.