Rhetorical occasions : essays on humans and the humanities /

Collects twenty-four of the author's major essays and reviews, as well as a sampling of entries on literary theory and contemporary culture from his award-winning weblog. This work offers an array of interventions into matters - academic and nonacademic.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bérubé, Michael, 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2006.
Temas:
Sokal, Alan D., > 1955-
2001
Humanities > United States.
Learning and scholarship > United States.
Popular culture > United States.
Criticism > United States.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 > Influence.
New Left > United States.
Rhetoric > United States.
Blogs > United States.
Sciences humaines > États-Unis.
Savoir et érudition > États-Unis.
Culture populaire > États-Unis.
Critique > États-Unis.
Attentats du 11 septembre 2001, États-Unis > Influence.
Nouvelle gauche > États-Unis.
Rhétorique > États-Unis.
Blogues > États-Unis.
REFERENCE > Questions & Answers.
Blogs
Criticism
Humanities
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Learning and scholarship
New Left
Popular culture
Rhetoric
Education
United States > Study and teaching.
États-Unis > Étude et enseignement.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Sokal hoax for beginners
  • The return of realism and the future of contingency
  • Of fine clothes and naked emperors
  • The utility of the arts and humanities
  • There is nothing inside the text; or, why no one's heard of Wolfgang Iser
  • Citizens of the world, unite: Martha Nussbaum's plan for cultivating humanity
  • American studies without exceptions
  • Idolatries of the marketplace: Thomas Frank, cultural studies, and the voice of the people
  • Days of future past
  • Teaching to the six
  • Working for the U: on the thetoric of "affiliation"
  • Dream a little dream
  • Professing and parenting
  • Speaking of speakers
  • Universities should be open for business
  • Analyze, don't summarize
  • The top 10 contradictory things about popular culture
  • The Elvis Costello problem
  • The lefts before 21 September
  • Nation and narration
  • Can the left get Iraq right?
  • For a better and broader antiwar movement
  • Fighting liberals
  • The loyalties of American studies
  • Azkaban blogging
  • Back in les États-Unis
  • Vacation reading II
  • Republican National Convention, second night
  • More plans for democrats in distress
  • The Beinart effect
  • Theory Tuesday II
  • Theory Tuesday III
  • Was I ever wrong.

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