Canon as Palimpsest: Composition Studies, Genre Theory, and the Discourses of the Humanities.

The article provides a critical reflection on the study of composition and rhetoric. It examines the connection between composition Studies and the humanities. The book "Arts of Living," by Kurt Spellmeyer about the state of the humanities in the academy is discussed. The article argues for balance in tendencies towards pragmatism under the context of composition studies or composition and rhetoric.