The Critical Pulse : : Thirty-Six Credos by Contemporary Critics /

The Critical Pulse : : Thirty-Six Credos by Contemporary Critics / / ed. by Jeffrey Williams, Heather Steffen.

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This unprecedented anthology asks thirty-six leading literary and cultural critics to elaborate on the nature of their profession. With the humanities feeling the pinch of financial and political pressures, and its disciplines resting on increasingly uncertain conceptual ground, there couldn't...

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MitwirkendeR:
Bauerlein, Mark,
Berlant, Lauren,
Bousquet, Marc,
Burt, Stephen,
Bérubé, Michael,
Cohen, Victor,
Conley, John,
Dickstein, Morris,
Downing, David B.,
Felski, Rita,
Fitzpatrick, Kathleen,
Foley, Barbara,
Fuss, Diana,
Germano, William,
Graff, Gerald,
Greif, Mark,
Halberstam, Judith Jack,
Hogan, Katie,
Kumar, Amitava,
Lauter, Paul,
Leitch, Vincent B.,
Looser, Devoney,
Lowe, Lisa,
Massé, Michelle A.,
McGurl, Mark,
Moi, Toril,
Negrón-Muntaner, Frances,
Nelson, Cary,
Pellegrini, Ann,
Robbins, Bruce,
Ross, Andrew,
Shumway, David R.,
Steffen, Heather,
Warren, Kenneth,
Williams, Jeffrey J.,
Womack, Craig,
HerausgeberIn:
Steffen, Heather,
Williams, Jeffrey,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Criticism in a Difficult Time
  • A Critic'S Progress
  • 1. The Case for Scholarly
  • 2. Declarations of Independence
  • 3. On Critique and Inheritance
  • 4. What I Believe and Why
  • 5. Hearing Losses and Gains
  • 6. Long Island Intellectual
  • Academic Labor
  • 7. We Work
  • 8. What Is Criticism on Academic Labor For?
  • 9. "All Things Visible and Invisible": Believing in Higher Education
  • 10. Against Heroism
  • 11. Pack Consciousness
  • Declarations of Politics
  • 12. Activism and Curriculum
  • 13. Revolutionary Consciousness
  • 14. Geopolitical Translators
  • 15. Critical Credo
  • 16. This I Believed
  • 17. "Hope Dies Last": Cultural Studies and Studs Terkel
  • Pedagogical Moments
  • 18. Credo of a Teacher
  • 19. Of Credos and Credibility
  • 20. Teaching Friction
  • 21. Coerced Confessions
  • 22. On Race and Literature
  • 23. Teaching Theory
  • 24. Affect Is the New Trauma
  • The Defense of Literature
  • 25. Access to the Universal: Language, Literature, and the Humanities
  • 26. Wrestling with the Angel: A Modest Critical Credo
  • 27. Everyday Aesthetics
  • 28. Criticism Is Vital
  • 29. Critical Credo
  • 30. Why I'm Still Writing Women's Literary History
  • New Turns
  • 31. Without Evidence
  • 32. All There Is to Use
  • 33. Open
  • 34. Timing
  • 35. The Politics of Small Problems
  • 36. The Power of Unknowing
  • List of Contributors

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