How to Be an Intellectual : Essays on Criticism, Culture, and the University / Jeffrey J. Williams.
Williams, Jeffrey J., author.
2014
PN99.U5 W55 2015
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Title
How to Be an Intellectual : Essays on Criticism, Culture, and the University / Jeffrey J. Williams.
Author
Williams, Jeffrey J., author.
ISBN
9780823263837
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823263837
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2014]
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (232 p.)
Item Number
10.1515/9780823263837 doi
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PN99.U5 W55 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification
801/.950973
Summary
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 publicHow 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 modern American criticism in terms of its keywords as they morphed from sound to rigorous to smart. It also puts in plain language the political travesty of higher education policies that produce student debt, which, as Williams demonstrates, all too readily follow the model of colonial indenture, not just as a metaphor but in actual point of fact.How to Be an Intellectual tells a story of intellectual life since the culture wars. Shedding academic obscurity and calling for a better critical writing, it reflects on what makes the critic and intellectual-the accidents of careers, the trends in thought, the institutions that shape us, and politics. It also includes personal views of living and working with books.
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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

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