How to Be an Intellectual : : Essays on Criticism, Culture, and the University / / Jeffrey J. Williams.
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’...
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| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Introduction
- PART ONE: THE POLITICS OF CRITICISM
- 1. How to Be an Intellectual: Rorty v. Ross
- 2. The Retrospective Tenor of Recent Theory
- 3. The Rise of the Theory Journal
- 4. How Critics Became Smart
- 5. Publicist Intellectuals
- 6. The Ubiquity of Culture
- 7. Credibility and Criticism: On Walter Benn Michaels
- 8. The Statistical Turn in Literary Criticism
- PART TWO: PROFILES IN CRITICISM
- 9. Prodigal Critics: Bloom, Fish, and Greenblatt
- 10. A Life in Criticism: M. H. Abrams
- 11. Bellwether: J. Hillis Miller
- 12. The Political Theory License: Michael Walzer
- 13. The Critic as Wanderer: Terry Eagleton
- 14. From Cyborgs to Animals: Donna Haraway
- 15. Intellectuals and Politics: Stefan Collini
- 16. The Editor as Broker: Gordon Hutner
- 17. Gaga Feminism: Judith “Jack” Halberstam
- 18. Book Angst
- PART THREE: THE PREDICAMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY
- 19. The Pedagogy of Debt
- 20. Student Debt and the Spirit of Indenture
- 21. The Academic Devolution
- 22. The Neoliberal Bias of Higher Education
- 23. The University on Film
- 24. The Thrill Is Gone
- 25. Unlucky Jim
- 26. Academic Opportunities Unlimited
- PART FOUR: THE PERSONAL AND THE CRITICAL
- 27. The Pedagogy of Prison
- 28. Shelf Life
- 29. Teacher: Remembering Michael Sprinker
- 30. My Life as Editor
- 31. Other People’s Words
- 32. Long Island Intellectual