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Title:

Wild orchids and Trotsky : messages from American universities / edited by Mark Edmundson.

Publisher:

Penguin Books,

Copyright Date:

1993

Description:

viii, 340 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Humanities--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.
Humanities--United States.

Other Authors:

Edmundson, Mark, 1952-

Notes:

"A Penguin original"--Label on cover. Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-340).

Contents:

Introduction : The academy writes back / Mark Edmundson -- Trotsky and the wild orchids / Richard Rorty -- My kinsman, T.S. Eliot / Frank Lentricchia -- Decades / Nancy K. Miller -- Expanding humanism : an interview / Edward Said -- In the waiting room : canons, communities, "political correctness" / Judith Frank -- The falls of academe / William Kerrigan -- Discipline and theory / Michael Bérubé -- Authority and originality : an interview / Harold Bloom -- Crashing the party : women in the academy now / Susan Fraiman -- Queer and now / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- Handling "Crisis" : great books, rap music, and the end of western homogeneity / Houston A. Baker, Jr. -- Thinking like other people / J. Hillis Miller -- Pragmatism and the sentence of death / Richard Poirier.

ISBN:

9780140170788
0140170782

OCLC:

(OCoLC)26352645

LCCN:

92028407

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)