ns.41|42 - The Institution of Literature: i. States of Theory

POETRY/FICTION
  1. DMITRI PRIGOV 15 Wise Exhortations
  2. DMITRI PRIGOV Telegrams
  3. DMITRI PRIGOV The Weather on the Planet
  4. A Few Words on Penis Envy
  5. Father
  6. Thinking About American Communists, 1992
  7. Buckingham Alba
  8. SUSAN MONTEZ Eking Out a Living in the Third Poorest County in Virginia
  9. Luscious Orchards
  10. A Barely Audible Echo Speaks Five
  11. Morning Musing
  12. Passing Mention
  13. Bloomsday, 1983
  14. a loss for words
  15. ALVIN GREENBERG the corridors of power
  16. Hands
  17. Warsaw, 1937
  18. Teaching in Prison
  19. Afterward
  20. Maxine Kumin Writes of Pairing Geese
  21. Made Of
  22. Wrestling Dada
  23. Deconstructing Aristotle
  24. The MLA Wasteland
  1. Writing in Concert: An Interview with Cathy Davidson, Alice Kaplan, Jane Tompkins, and Marianna Torgovnick
ESSAYS
  1. Framing Theory: The Disorganization of Historiography
  2. The Theory Junkyard
  3. Metaphors critics Live By: Property, Names, and Colleagues in the Critical Archive
  4. Changing Academic Shapes (on Freedman, Frey, and Zauhar's The Intimate Critique)
  5. This Feminism Which Is Not One: Women, Generations, Institutions
  6. On Feminist Pedagogy
  7. Anti-Feminism Generation X-Style (on Roiphe's The Morning After)
  8. Feminizing Bakhtin (on Bauer and McKinstry's Feminism, Bakhtin, and the Dialogic)
  9. Single Stroke of Genius: Doing Without Derrida
  10. Diary of a Deconstructor Manque: Reflections on Post Post-Mortem de Man
  11. The Temptations of Narrative (on de Graef's Serenity in Crisis)
  12. J. Hillis Miller, Materialism, and the Joys of Reading
  13. Christopher Norris v. Postmodernism
  14. Orbiting Planet Foucault
  15. Social and Private Bodies (on Burroughs and Ehrenrich's Reading the Social Body)
  16. The Green[blatt]ing of America: Some Thoughts on the Institutional Geneaology of Greenblatt's New Historicism
  17. Close Encounters (on Zizek's For They Know Not What They Do)
  18. Marxism Meets Foucault: Will the Real Marx Stand Up? (on Barrett's The Politics of Truth and Bennett's Outside Literature)
  19. Imperial Affiliations (on Said's Culture and Imperialism)
  20. Directions In Left Theory (on Jameson's The Geopolitical Aesthetic)
  21. Postcolonial Tour
  22. The American C.L.R. James (on James' American Civilization and McLemee and Le Blanc's C.L.R. James and Revolutionary Marxism)
  23. Keeping Faith and Losing Politics (on West's Keeping Faith)
  24. Contradictions of the Canon (on Bérubé's Marginal Forces/Cultural Centers)
  25. Situating Theory in the Classroom (on Nelson's Theory in the Classroom, Henricksen and Morgan's Critical Theories and Pedagogies, Morton and Zavarzadeh's Theory/Pedagogy/Politics, and Kecht's Pedagogy is Politics)
  26. Academics as Public Intellectuals
  27. Revolution from Within? (on Graff's Beyond the Culture Wars)
  28. The Crisis in Criticism Revisited (on Dickstein's Double Agent)
  29. Personally Speaking (on Kaplan's French Lessons)
  30. Brave New University (on Rossman's The Emerging Electronic Worldwide University)

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