Combining creative and critical responses from some of today's most progressive and innovative novelists, critics, and theorists, Fiction's Present adventurously engages the aesthetic, political, philosophical, and cultural dimensions of contemporary fiction. By juxtaposing scholarly articles with essays by practicing novelists, the book takes up not only the current state of literature and its criticism but also connections between contemporary philosophy and contemporary fiction. In doing so, the contributors aim to provoke further discussion of the present inflection of fiction--a present...
Combining creative and critical responses from some of today's most progressive and innovative novelists, critics, and theorists, Fiction's Present ad...
It s not what you know, but who you know. It s not what you do, but where you do it. Underlying such facile assertions, there lies at least a little truth and, for academics, a complex web of relationships. Academic affiliations confer value and identity on individuals, disciplines, and institutions. They have a formative and formidable role in determining the status and self-image of academics and institutions. The subtleties and implications of such a system in personal and professional terms are the subject of this timely and thought-provoking volume. Here writers from all walks of...
It s not what you know, but who you know. It s not what you do, but where you do it. Underlying such facile assertions, there lies at least a little t...
Over the course of the past twenty-five years, anthologies have shifted from playing a relatively minor role in academic culture to a position of dominance. The essays in this collection explore the significant intellectual, economic, political, pedagogical, and creative resonance of anthologies through all levels of academic life. They show that anthologies have consequences and are grounded in commitments. Striving to articulate these consequences and commitments is a priority in higher education today.
Most of the contributors to this volume are editors of anthologies, and they draw on...
Over the course of the past twenty-five years, anthologies have shifted from playing a relatively minor role in academic culture to a position of domi...
Growing up in middle-class middle America, Sonya Huber viewed health care as did most of her peers: as an inconvenience or not at all. There were braces and cavities, medications and stitches, the family doctor and the local dentist. Finding herself without health insurance after college graduation, she didn t worry. It was a temporary problem. Thirteen years and twenty-three jobs later, her view of the matter was quite different. Huber s irreverent and affecting memoir of navigating the nation s health-care system brings an awful and necessary dose of reality to the political debates and...
Growing up in middle-class middle America, Sonya Huber viewed health care as did most of her peers: as an inconvenience or not at all. There were brac...
Demythologizing contemporary higher education has become a priority for committed twenty-first century academics. Today, the economic and political dimensions of universities are among the most hotly and highly contested topics in higher education--particularly among humanities scholars. It is currently not uncommon to find standing-room-only sessions at MLA (Modern Language Association) or ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) meetings for presentations on the corporate university or the fate of tenure, while sessions on traditional literary topics see sparse attendance. Indeed,...
Demythologizing contemporary higher education has become a priority for committed twenty-first century academics. Today, the economic and political di...
Demythologizing contemporary higher education has become a priority for committed twenty-first century academics. Today, the economic and political dimensions of universities are among the most hotly and highly contested topics in higher education--particularly among humanities scholars. It is currently not uncommon to find standing-room-only sessions at MLA (Modern Language Association) or ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) meetings for presentations on the corporate university or the fate of tenure, while sessions on traditional literary topics see sparse attendance. Indeed,...
Demythologizing contemporary higher education has become a priority for committed twenty-first century academics. Today, the economic and political di...
How do humanists speak for and from the humanities in an academy which values them less and less and market-driven approaches more and more? Jeffrey R. Di Leo provides a thorough critique of the higher education crisis and a set of practical and reasonable remedies for shaping the study and practice of the humanities in the academy of the future.
How do humanists speak for and from the humanities in an academy which values them less and less and market-driven approaches more and more? Jeffrey R...
"American Book Review" is not just a book review--it is also the heart and soul of writerly writing and small press publishing. In 2006, the publication was relocated to Victoria, Texas, where cultural critic and philosopher Jeffrey R. Di Leo became editor and publisher. "Turning the Page" collects Di Leo's contributions to "American Book Review" from his more recent "Page 2" entries on "social reading" and book bannings in Arizona to his early engagements with the work of Raymond Federman and Harold Jaffe. The common themes are book and publishing culture, and how they intersect with current...
"American Book Review" is not just a book review--it is also the heart and soul of writerly writing and small press publishing. In 2006, the publicati...
"Neoliberalism, Education, Terrorism: Contemporary Dialogues" is a collaborative effort among four established public intellectuals who care deeply about the future of education in America and who are concerned about the dangerous effects of neoliberalism on American society and culture. It aims to provide a clear, concise, and thought-provoking account of the problems facing education in America under the dual shadows of neoliberalism and terrorism. Through collaborative and individual essays, the authors provide a provocative account that will be of interest to anyone concerned about the...
"Neoliberalism, Education, Terrorism: Contemporary Dialogues" is a collaborative effort among four established public intellectuals who care deeply ab...
What are the theoretical parameters that produce the category public intellectual? With essays from a range of humanities scholars, this collection responds to this question, complicating the notion of the public intellectual while arguing for its continued urgency in communities formal and informal, institutional and abstract.
What are the theoretical parameters that produce the category public intellectual? With essays from a range of humanities scholars, this collection...
