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Academic instincts [[electronic resource] /] / Marjorie Garber ; [illustrated by Sir John Tenniell]



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Autore: Garber Marjorie B Visualizza persona
Titolo: Academic instincts [[electronic resource] /] / Marjorie Garber ; [illustrated by Sir John Tenniell] Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2001
Edizione: Course Book
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (195 p.)
Disciplina: 001.3/071/1
Soggetto topico: Humanities - Study and teaching (Higher)
Literature - Study and teaching (Higher)
Universities and colleges - Curricula
Academic writing
Humanities - Philosophy
Learning and scholarship
Soggetto non controllato: Adjective
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
Altri autori: TennielJohn <1820-1914>  
Note generali: Cover title.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Amateur Professional and the Professional Amateur -- 2. Discipline Envy -- 3. Terms of Art -- Notes -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: In 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Academic instincts  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4008-1426-X
1-282-66564-2
9786612665646
1-4008-2467-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910784919103321
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