This book develops a new theoretical approach to the study of writing
by fusing key aspects of postmodern theory with the empirical
sensibilities of composition studies and with that field's long-standing
investment in writerly agency.
Specifically, Inside the Subject describes the act of writing in terms
of the event, a concept for mapping relations between the symbolic and
the nonsymbolic. In addition, the book casts writers as both locations
and catalysts for these relations. And finally, it develops a theory of
identity to describe these relations, and these locations, in more
detail than the field currently has at its disposal.