Williams / Steffen The Critical Pulse

Thirty-Six Credos by Contemporary Critics
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-231-53073-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams, Jeffrey

Steffen, Heather

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Geisteswissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Criticism in a Difficult Time
A Critic's Progress
1. The Case for Scholarly Reporting, by Andrew Ross
2. Declarations of Independence, by Amitava Kumar
3. On Critique and Inheritance, by Lisa Lowe
4. What I Believe and Why, by Vincent B. Leitch
5. Hearing Losses and Gains, by Craig Womack
6. Long Island Intellectual, by Jeffrey J. Williams
Academic Labor
7. We Work, by Marc Bousquet
8. What Is Criticism on Academic Labor For?, by Katie Hogan
9. "All Things Visible and Invisible": Believing in Higher Education, by Michelle A. Massé
10. Against Heroism, by John Conley
11. Pack Consciousness, by Heather Steffen
Declarations of Politics
12. Activism and Curriculum, by Paul Lauter
13. Revolutionary Consciousness, by Cary Nelson
14. Geopolitical Translators, by David B. Downing
15. Critical Credo, by Barbara Foley
16. This I Believed, by Michael Bérubé
17. "Hope Dies Last": Cultural Studies and Studs Terkel, by Victor Cohen
Pedagogical Moments
18. Credo of a Teacher, by Gerald Graff
19. Of Credos and Credibility, by William Germano
20. Teaching Friction, by Ann Pellegrini
21. Coerced Confessions, by Bruce Robbins
22. On Race and Literature, by Kenneth Warren
23. Teaching Theory, by Diana Fuss
24. Affect Is the New Trauma, by Lauren Berlant
The Defense of Literature
25. Access to the Universal: Language, Literature, and the Humanities, by Toril Moi
26. Wrestling with the Angel: A Modest Critical Credo, by Morris Dickstein
27. Everyday Aesthetics, by Rita Felski
28. Criticism Is Vital, by David R. Shumway
29. Critical Credo, by Mark Bauerlein
30. Why I'm Still Writing Women's Literary History, by Devoney Looser
New Turns
31. Without Evidence, by Stephen Burt
32. All There Is to Use, by Mark Greif
33. Open, by Kathleen Fitzpatrick
34. Timing, by Mark McGurl
35. The Politics of Small Problems, by Frances Negrón-Muntaner
36. The Power of Unknowing, by Judith Jack Halberstam
List of Contributors

Leseproben

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Über Autor(innen)

Jeffrey J. Williams is professor of English and literary and cultural studies at Carnegie Mellon University. His books include Theory and the Novel: Narrative Reflexivity in the English Tradition; PC Wars: Politics and Theory in the Academy; The Institution of Literature; and Critics at Work: Interviews. He is also a former editor of the minnesota review and coedits the Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.

Heather Steffen is a Ph.D. candidate in literary and cultural studies at Carnegie Mellon University. She is working on a dissertation about academic labor and criticism of the university in the Progressive Era.