This book is a lively, passionate defence of contemporary work in the humanities, and, beyond that, of the university system that makes such work possible. The book's stark accounts of academic labour, and its proposals for reform of the tenure system, are novel, controversial, timely, and very necessary.
This book is a lively, passionate defence of contemporary work in the humanities, and, beyond that, of the university system that makes such work poss...
How an understanding of intellectual disability can transform our understanding of narrative Narrative informs everything we think, do, plan, remember, and imagine. We tell stories and we listen to stories, gauging their -well-formedness- within a couple of years of learning to walk and talk. Some argue that the capacity to understand narrative is innate to our species; others claim that while that might be so, the invention of writing then re-wired our brains. In The Secret Life of Stories, Michael Berube tells a dramatically different tale, in a compelling account...
How an understanding of intellectual disability can transform our understanding of narrative Narrative informs everything we think, d...
