Writing and Thinking in Contemporary Academia: The Poetics of Clarity

ISBN-13: 9780367727628 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 158 str.

Martin Gr?nfeld

Opis

This book explores the nature of clarity in academic writing, by scrutinizing the ideal of clarity beyond its apparently self-evident value.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements  Introductory Remarks: The Question of Clarity  Part 1: The Poetics of Clarity in Contemporary Academic Writing  1. The Idealised Plane of Poetics: Core Concepts and Ideals  2. The Formation of Sentences  3. Researchers-in-the-Texts  4. Textual Structures of Research Articles  Part 2: Reflections on The Consequences for Thinking  5. The Unstable Distinction Between Form and Content  6. Phrase Regimes, Genres, and the Expulsion of Metaphors  7. Authorial Effacement and the Suppression of Contexts, Biases, Interests  8. Textual Structures as Templates for Thinking  9. Thinking the Limits and the Limits for Thinking: The Inherent Positivist Bias  10. Clarity: A Potential Acceleration of Thinking?  Epilogue  Appendix I: A Note on Rancière’s Poetics of Knowledge  Appendix II: A Note on Methods  Works Cited  Index

O autorze

Martin Grünfeld is Assistant Professor in Metabolic Science in Culture at Medical Museion and the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.