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A LEAP OF FAITH: COMPOSING IN THE WASTELAND OF POSTMODERNISM

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2010

Cecilia Livingston
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In the first composition class I ever took, the professor began by asking us why we wanted to compose. This was a question I had been wrestling with for some time; I had just switched programs at my university and had needed to justify, to myself at least, why I should have taken the biggest risk of my academic career thus far. The question, put so baldly by this professor, had never actually been asked by anyone else when I announced that I wanted to change my course; secretly, I was glad of this, for I felt the answer was too personal and private and new to me to survive any kind of display, or attack.

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Research Article
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Tempo , Volume 64 , Issue 253 , July 2010 , pp. 30 - 40
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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