| Description |
223 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Cultural memory in the present |
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Cultural memory in the present.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Dressing Up, Dressing Down / Jonathan Culler and Kevin Lamb -- 1. Difficult Style and "Illustrious" Vernaculars: A Historical Perspective / Margaret Ferguson -- 2. Hume's Learned and Conversable Worlds / Robin Valenza and John Bender -- 3. Bad Writing and Good Philosophy / Jonathan Culler -- 4. The Metaphysics of Clarity and the Freedom of Meaning / John McCumber -- 5. Feminism's Broken English / Robyn Wiegman -- 6. The Resistance of Theory; or, The Worth of Agony / Rey Chow -- 7. Styles of Intellectual Publics / Michael Warner -- 8. On Difficulty, the Avant-Garde, and Critical Moribundity / Peter Brooks -- 9. Difficulty in Modern Poetry and Aesthetics / Robert Kaufman -- 10. Bad Writing / Barbara Johnson -- 11. The Morality of Form; or, What's "Bad" about "Bad Writing"? / David Palumbo-Liu -- 12. The Politics of the Production of Knowledge: An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak / Stuart J. Murray -- 13. Values of Difficulty / Judith Butler |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Academic writing.
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Scholarly publishing.
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Learning and scholarship.
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English language -- Style.
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English language -- Rhetoric.
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College teachers -- Language.
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| Genre/Form |
Essays.
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| Author |
Culler, Jonathan D.
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Lamb, Kevin, 1975-
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| LC no. |
2002014744 |
| ISBN |
0804747091 |
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0804747105 paperback |
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