07178nam 2202029 a 450 991078491910332120230720152920.01-4008-1426-X1-282-66564-297866126656461-4008-2467-210.1515/9781400824670(CKB)2670000000034948(EBL)617327(SSID)ssj0000096329(PQKBManifestationID)11981515(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000096329(PQKBWorkID)10081595(PQKB)10225736(SSID)ssj0000432778(PQKBManifestationID)12143646(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000432778(PQKBWorkID)10494940(PQKB)10341375(MdBmJHUP)muse36115(DE-B1597)446193(DE-B1597)9781400824670(Au-PeEL)EBL617327(CaPaEBR)ebr10400784(CaONFJC)MIL266564(OCoLC)52522363(MiAaPQ)EBC617327(OCoLC)979910619(EXLCZ)99267000000003494820000616d2001 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAcademic instincts[electronic resource] /Marjorie Garber ; [illustrated by Sir John Tenniell]Course BookPrinceton, N.J. Princeton University Pressc20011 online resource (195 p.)Cover title.0-691-04970-X 0-691-11571-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Preface --1. The Amateur Professional and the Professional Amateur --2. Discipline Envy --3. Terms of Art --Notes --IndexIn this lively and provocative book, cultural critic Marjorie Garber, who has written on topics as different as Shakespeare, dogs, cross-dressing, and real estate, explores the pleasures and pitfalls of the academic life. Academic Instincts discusses three of the perennial issues that have surfaced in recent debates about the humanities: the relation between "amateurs" and "professionals," the relation between one academic discipline and another, and the relation between "jargon" and "plain language." Rather than merely taking sides, the book explores the ways in which such debates are essential to intellectual life. Garber argues that the very things deplored or defended in discussions of the humanities cannot be either eliminated or endorsed because the discussion itself is what gives humanistic thought its vitality. Written in spirited and vivid prose, and full of telling detail drawn both from the history of scholarship and from the daily press, Academic Instincts is a book by a well-known Shakespeare scholar and prize-winning teacher who offers analysis rather than polemic to explain why today's teachers and scholars are at once breaking new ground and treading familiar paths. It opens the door to an important nationwide and worldwide conversation about the reorganization of knowledge and the categories in and through which we teach the humanities. And it does so in a spirit both generous and optimistic about the present and the future of these disciplines.HumanitiesStudy and teaching (Higher)LiteratureStudy and teaching (Higher)Universities and collegesCurriculaAcademic writingHumanitiesPhilosophyLearning and scholarshipAdjective.Aestheticism.Alan Sokal.Alfred Kazin.Amateur professionalism.Amateur.American studies.Anti-intellectualism.Aphorism.Art history.Author.Book review.C. P. Snow.C. S. Lewis.Columnist.Counterintuitive.Critical theory.Criticism.Cultural studies.Culture war.Deconstruction.Doublespeak.Edward Said.Essay.Fashionable Nonsense.Genre.George Orwell.Gertrude Stein.Harvard University.Headline.Humanities.Idealization.Ideology.Intellectual.Interdisciplinarity.Irony.Jacques Derrida.Jacques Lacan.James Gleick.Jargon.Jewish studies.Jonathan Swift.Joseph Addison.Judith Butler.Liberal arts education.Literary criticism.Literary theory.Literature.Mario Pei.Minima Moralia.Modern Language Association.Mr.Neologism.New Criticism.Newspeak.Novelist.Oxford University Press.Penis envy.Philosopher.Philosophy.Phrase.Physicist.Poetry.Political correctness.Politician.Post-structuralism.Postmodernism.Prince Hal.Psychoanalysis.Psychology.Rhetoric.Richard Feynman.Robert Maynard Hutchins.Roland Barthes.Romanticism.Science.Scientist.Sigmund Freud.Slang.Social science.Sociology.Sokal affair.Sophistication.Stanley Fish.Terminology.The New York Times.The Philosopher.The School of Athens.The Two Cultures.Theodor W. Adorno.Theory.Thought.Usage.Verb.Vocabulary.Wendy Lesser.Wilhelm Dilthey.William Shakespeare.Writer.Writing.HumanitiesStudy and teaching (Higher)LiteratureStudy and teaching (Higher)Universities and collegesCurricula.Academic writing.HumanitiesPhilosophy.Learning and scholarship.001.3/071/1Garber Marjorie B155358Tenniel John1820-1914191572MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784919103321Academic instincts3672490UNINA