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How to be an intellectual : essays on criticism, culture, and the university / Jeffrey J. Williams.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Fordham University Press, (c)2014.Description: 1 online resource (226 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823263837
  • 9780823263844
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN99 .H698 2014
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Subject: Over the past decade, Jeffrey J. Williams has been one of the most perceptive observers of contemporary literary and cultural studies. He has also been a shrewd analyst of the state of American higher education. How to Be an Intellectual brings together noted and new essays and exemplifies Williams's effort to bring criticism to a wider public How to Be an Intellectual profiles a number of critics, drawing on a unique series of interviews that give an inside look at their work and careers. The book often looks at critical thought from surprising angles, examining, for instance, the history of.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Over the past decade, Jeffrey J. Williams has been one of the most perceptive observers of contemporary literary and cultural studies. He has also been a shrewd analyst of the state of American higher education. How to Be an Intellectual brings together noted and new essays and exemplifies Williams's effort to bring criticism to a wider public How to Be an Intellectual profiles a number of critics, drawing on a unique series of interviews that give an inside look at their work and careers. The book often looks at critical thought from surprising angles, examining, for instance, the history of.

""Front ""; ""Contents ""; ""Introduction: Criticism without Footnotes""; ""How to Be an Intellectual: Rorty v. Ross""; ""The Retrospective Tenor of Recent Theory""; ""The Rise of the Theory Journal""; ""How Critics Became Smart""; ""Publicist Intellectuals""; ""The Ubiquity of Culture""; ""Credibility and Criticism: On Walter Benn Michaels""; ""The Statistical Turn in Literary Criticism""; ""Prodigal Critics: Bloom, Fish, and Greenblatt""; ""A Life in Criticism: M.H. Abrams""; ""Bellwether: J. Hillis Miller""; ""The Political Theory License: Michael Walzer""

""The Critic as Wanderer: Terry Eagleton""""From Cyborgs to Animals: Donna Haraway""; ""Intellectuals and Politics: Stefan Collini""; ""The Editor as Broker: Gordon Hutner""; ""Gaga Feminism: Judith “Jack� Halberstam""; ""Book Angst""; ""The Pedagogy of Debt""; ""Student Debt and the Spirit of Indenture""; ""The Academic Devolution""; ""The Neoliberal Bias of Higher Education""; ""The University on Film""; ""The Thrill Is Gone""; ""Unlucky Jim""; ""Academic Opportunities Unlimited""; ""The Pedagogy of Prison""; ""Shelf Life""; ""Teacher: Remembering Michael Sprinker""

""My Life as Editor""""Other People�s Words""; ""Long Island Intellectual""

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