{"id":6978,"date":"2008-07-21T14:00:45","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T14:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/21\/new-echo-new-na\/"},"modified":"2008-07-21T14:00:45","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T14:00:45","slug":"new-echo-new-na","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/21\/new-echo-new-na\/","title":{"rendered":"New Echo, New Narcissus"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span><p>Kopelson writes,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yet, as composition studies is distinct in its penchant for &#8216;borrowing,&#8217;<br \/>\n\twe are also, in my opinion, unrivaled in our proclivity for<br \/>\n\tself-examination. I am not arguing that this is an unimportant<br \/>\n\tactivity, but only that the costs are indeed high when self-scrutiny comes<br \/>\n\tat the expense of taking up other critical concerns and of making other,<br \/>\n\tmore innovative and far-reaching forms of knowledge (775).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This appears in the final section of the essay, the part titled &quot;Conclusion:<br \/>\nBanishing Echo and Narcissus.&quot; Here, Kopelson takes exception with the<br \/>\nfield&#8217;s self-reflexivity, the growing heap of self-interested and self-absorbed<br \/>\nassessments of where we are or where we are heading. There is an<br \/>\nunidentified villain here, and I wondered as I read whether Kopelson has any<br \/>\nfavorite &#8216;misses&#8217;, accounts that get it terribly wrong or that are built up on<br \/>\nmarsh-lands of mushy data. <\/p>\n<p>Reading this section and the quotation above in particular, I had the<br \/>\nsense that Kopelson wasn&#8217;t as interested in &quot;banishing&quot; Echo and Narcissus<br \/>\nas in giving them overhauls, in renewing them, even in teaching them how to <i><br \/>\nresonate<\/i> and <i>reflect<\/i> less recklessly. In other words, what is<br \/>\nwrong with many self-reflexive disciplinary accounts (or &quot;discipliniographies&quot;<br \/>\nto lift and bend a term Maureen Daly Goggin introduces in <i>Authoring a<br \/>\nDiscipline<\/i>) is that they succumb to a <i>localist impulse<\/i>. That<br \/>\nis, they un-self-conciously extrapolate from local experience and anecdotal<br \/>\nevidence onto the field at large, projecting some local knowledge onto the<br \/>\nexpansive abstraction that is the discipline (however we imagine it to be).<br \/>\nThe localist impulse can take many different shapes; often it is akin to reading<br \/>\npatterns through the course of an individual career (i.e., &quot;in my thirty years<br \/>\nat Whatsittoyou U.&quot;) or by cherry-picking from an exceedingly thin selection of<br \/>\ndata (titles of conference presentations or tables of contents for teacher<br \/>\ntraining manuals). We all do this to some extent&#8211;making sense of the field at<br \/>\nlarge through our local, immediate experiences, but it is dangerous to arrive at<br \/>\nconclusions about the field (or world) at-large solely by examining one&#8217;s own<br \/>\nneighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;m getting at is that I don&#8217;t have any beef with the disciplinary<br \/>\npractice of self-examination. Perhaps there are more than a handful of<br \/>\nfields in the academy that would benefit from more of it. I hold history (the calling of others who&#8217;ve navigated this canyon) and<br \/>\nreflection in high regard (perhaps not to the ill-fated extremes of Echo and<br \/>\nNarcissus). Resonanceresonanceresonance and reflection are valuable, especially for newcomers,<br \/>\nfor the &quot;new converts&quot; Kopelson mentions. But they will not be successful&#8211;or<br \/>\nvery useful&#8211;until they get beyond that localist impulse, until they involve<br \/>\nearnest field-wide data collections and collaboratively built databases. I<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t know how well this matches with Kopelson&#8217;s &quot;innovative and far-reaching<br \/>\nforms of knowledge,&quot; but it is increasingly where my own interests lie.<br \/>\nIf those far-reaching forms of knowledge included disciplinary data (even simple<br \/>\nstuff, like how many programs offer undergraduate writing majors), they could<br \/>\ngenerate insights about disciplinarity. In the meantime those full-view<br \/>\ninsights will continue to elude us as long as we leap from local knowledge to<br \/>\nwidespread pattern, without addressing sufficiently the intermediary scales.\n<\/p>\n<p>Kopelson, Karen. &#8220;Sp(l)itting<br \/>\nImages; or, Back to the Future of (Rhetoric and?) Composition.&#8221; <i>CCC<\/i> 59.4<br \/>\n(2008): 750-780. 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