Just being difficult? : academic writing in the public arena / edited by Jonathan Culler and Kevin Lamb.

Other author Culler, Jonathan D.
Other author Lamb, Kevin, 1975-
Format Book
Publication InfoStanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003.
Description223 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Academic writing.
Scholarly publishing.
Learning and scholarship.
English language--Style.
English language--Rhetoric.
College teachers--Language.

SeriesCultural memory in the present
Cultural memory in the present. ^A403800
Contents Difficult style and "Illustrious" vernaculars / Margaret Ferguson -- Hume's learned and conversible worlds / Robin Valenza and John Bender -- Bad writing and good philosophy / Jonathan Culler -- The metaphysics of clarity and the freedom of meaning / John McCumber -- Feminism's broken English / Robyn Wiegman -- The resistance of theory, or, The worth of agony / Rey Chow -- Styles of intellectual publics / Michael Warner -- On difficulty, the avant-garde, and critical moribundity / Peter Brooks -- Difficulty in modern poetry and aesthetics / Robert Kaufman -- Bad writing / Barbara Johnson -- The morality of form, or, What's "bad" about "bad writing"? / David Palumbo-Liu -- The politics of the production of knowledge / Gayatri Spivak -- Values of difficulty / Judith Butler.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2002014744
ISBN0804747091

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PN146 .J87 2003 ✔ Available Place Hold