LEADER 04313nam 2200901 a 450 001 9910972266503321 005 20251117005507.0 010 $a9786612665646 010 $a9781400814268 010 $a140081426X 010 $a9781282665644 010 $a1282665642 010 $a9781400824670 010 $a1400824672 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400824670 035 $a(CKB)2670000000034948 035 $a(EBL)617327 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000096329 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11981515 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000096329 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10081595 035 $a(PQKB)10225736 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000432778 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12143646 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000432778 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10494940 035 $a(PQKB)10341375 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36115 035 $a(DE-B1597)446193 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400824670 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL617327 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10400784 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL266564 035 $a(OCoLC)52522363 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC617327 035 $a(OCoLC)979910619 035 $a(Perlego)734110 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000034948 100 $a20000616d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAcademic instincts /$fMarjorie Garber ; [illustrated by Sir John Tenniell] 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (195 p.) 300 $aCover title. 311 08$a9780691049700 311 08$a069104970X 311 08$a9780691115719 311 08$a0691115710 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface --$t1. The Amateur Professional and the Professional Amateur --$t2. Discipline Envy --$t3. Terms of Art --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aHumanities$xStudy and teaching (Higher) 606 $aLiterature$xStudy and teaching (Higher) 606 $aUniversities and colleges$xCurricula 606 $aAcademic writing 606 $aHumanities$xPhilosophy 606 $aLearning and scholarship 615 0$aHumanities$xStudy and teaching (Higher) 615 0$aLiterature$xStudy and teaching (Higher) 615 0$aUniversities and colleges$xCurricula. 615 0$aAcademic writing. 615 0$aHumanities$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aLearning and scholarship. 676 $a001.3/071/1 700 $aGarber$b Marjorie B$0155358 701 $aTenniel$b John$f1820-1914.$0191572 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910972266503321 996 $aAcademic instincts$94474439 997 $aUNINA