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What happened to the bold, kicky promise of writing instruction in the 1960s? The current conservative trend in composition is analyzed allegorically by Geoffrey Sirc in this book-length homage to Charles Deemer's 1967 article, in which the theories and practices of Happenings artists (multi-disciplinary performance pioneers) were used to invigorate college writing. Sirc takes up Deemer's inquiry, moving through the material and theoretical concerns of such pre- and post-Happenings influences as Duchamp and Pollock, situationists and punks, as well as many of the Happenings artists proper

English language --- Academic writing --- Language and culture. --- Happening (Art) --- Rhetoric --- Study and teaching --- Psychological aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Action theater --- Event art --- Manifestations (Happenings) --- Mixed means, Theater of --- Painter's theater (Happenings) --- Realizations (Happenings) --- Theater of mixed means --- Total art (Happenings) --- Total theater (Happenings) --- Culture and language --- Learned writing --- Scholarly writing --- Art, Modern --- Arts, Modern --- Pantomime --- Performance art --- Culture --- Authorship --- Happenings (Art) --- Germanic languages