College Literature articles from October 1994

College Literature archives from October 1994

The me-in-crisis. (Symposium: The Subject of Pedagogical Politics/The Politics of Publication: The Pedagogy of Pleasure, part 2)
October 1, 1994... and you have requested that I "comment" on your "text." I have, of course, commented on your "final paper" or rather, the one-page paper you have turned in for your final paper. But I assume that by "comment" you mean my commenting on your...

Reading my readers. (Symposium: The Subject of Pedagogical Politics/The Politics of Publication)
October 1, 1994... The prepublication review process--whether for journal essays or book manuscripts--is supposed to function as an "objective," "independent," and just measure of the text's intellectual worth based on the knowledgeable, well-informed and freely...

Muting the countervoices: Zavarzadeh's pedagogy of critique. (Symposium: The Subject of Pedagogical Politics/The Politics of Publication)
October 1, 1994... The pedagogy of critique is a well-defined instance of the trend that, in familiar terms, marks a transition from "product learning"--that is, knowledge packaged for consumption as a finished product--to "process learning," which examines the...

Being red and misread.... (Symposium: The Subject of Pedagogical Politics/The Politics of Publication)
October 1, 1994... For a while now the irresistible force of a certain postmodernism has met the immovable object of a certain Marxism.(1) But instead of some kind of mutually altering historical collision taking place, they seemed to have formed a double-helix....

Reading "Reading My Readers": an oppositional response. (response to article by Mas'ud Zavarzadeh in this issue, p. 19) (Symposium: The Subject of Pedagogical Politics/The Politics of Publication)
October 1, 1994... As opposed to Mas'ud Zavarzadeh, the author of "The Pedagogy of Pleasure 2", I'm not really too bothered by the idea that the "conditions of publication" include a response by the author to the original readers of the manuscript. I guess this is...

Response to "Reading My Readers." (reply to article by Mas'ud Zavarzadeh in this issue, p. 19) (Symposium: The Subject of Pedagogical Politics/The Politics of Publication)
October 1, 1994... Writing as an editorial-board member in the pages of one's "own" journal feels a little like appearing in public naked. I am now to disclose a process normally performed in the dark with anonymous partners. This disclosure is perhaps easier for...

Why we should not set out to politicize the classroom: an anarchist response to the debate over pleasure and critique. (Symposium: The Subject of Pedagogical Politics/The Politics of Publication)
October 1, 1994... Insofar as College Literature is a journal devoted to the study of teaching, it seems appropriate to give a pedagogical focus to my comments on the debate between Mas'ud Zavarzadeh and his antagonists. However, before going on to this, I would...

Reviewing reviewing. (Symposium: The Subject of Pedagogical Politics/The Politics of Publication)
October 1, 1994... If it had been published without its heavy tail of responses, Mas'ud Zavarzadeh's article, "The Pedagogy of Pleasure 2: Me-in-Crisis,' would have been curious enough: a parodic, fictionalized account of a teacher's response to a note from a...

Determination/agency, critique/legitimation: difference and dialogue in classroom practice or what's left when the lefter-than-thou-speak stops? (Symposium: The Subject of Pedagogical Politics/The Politics of Publication)
October 1, 1994... When a student on a midterm exam for me wrote that of all the thinkers we had studied thus far, he found Matthew Arnold and Karl Marx to have the most in common because they were both "preoccupied with class," I knew that Gerald Graff was right...

The autonomous individual and the anonymous referee. (Symposium: The Subject of Pedagogical Politics/The Politics of Publication)
October 1, 1994... In terms that Mas'ud Zavarzadeh has used elsewhere, "The Pedagogy of Pleasure 2" might be described as a critique of "ludic" postmodernism (the pedagogy of pleasure) from the perspective of "resistance" postmodernism (the pedagogy of critique)...

Where do we go from here? A question of the left. (Symposium: The Subject of Pedagogical Politics/The Politics of Publication)
October 1, 1994... THE LEFT SITUATION At MLA this past year, someone reported to me that I was now a member of the "New New Left," in part because I've recently taken over the editorship of the minnesota review, long a left literary/cultural journal carrying the...

"The stupidity that consumption is just as productive as production": in the shopping mall of the post-al left. (Symposium: The Subject of Pedagogical Politics/The Politics of Publication)
October 1, 1994... 9 Edited by Robert Nowlan, P.O. Box 1055, Tempe, AZ 85280-1055. WORKS CITED IN THE SYMPOSIUM Althusser, Louis. "Contradiction and Overdetermination." For Marx. London: Verso, 1990. 87-128. -----. "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses...

Teaching the conflicts in the humanities core course at the University of California, Irvine.
October 1, 1994... Gerald Graff has argued that perhaps the only certainty to be extracted from the highly publicized debate over the canon is that advocates of various positions will not reach agreement on a list of books that all students should read in...

Guerrilla pedagogy: conflicting authority and interpretation in the classroom.
October 1, 1994... The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality (i.e., of those who establish it) to define what is real. (Marcuse) I teach in the English Department at Albion, a small Midwestern liberal arts college that has...

What multiculturalism should not be.
October 1, 1994... Studying other cultural traditions is important for many reasons. It teaches us about other cultures. It teaches us that familiar ways of doing and thinking about things are not the only ways. It helps us to understand what divides us and what...

The case for Jameson, or, towards a Marxian pedagogy of world literature.
October 1, 1994... The Third World is still very much alive as a possibility. It is not a matter of cheering for Third World countries to make their revolutions; it is a dialectical matter of seeing that we here are involved in these areas and are busy trying to...

Can things ever be perfectly correct?
October 1, 1994... In the midst of the plot confusions of The Importance of Being Earnest, Canon Chasuble and Miss Prism are gossiping about the fate of Jack Worthing's imaginary younger brother, said to be dead in Paris because of a chill. "Charity, dear Miss...

V.S. Naipaul and the political correctness debate.
October 1, 1994... Last year, an Indian student of mine, working at the time on a thesis on V. S. Naipaul, and exasperated at the lack of help she was getting from friends, suggested to me a new logo for her college sweatshirt. The logo changes every year, she...

Pedagogy of the City.
October 1, 1994... Paulo Freire on Higher Education and Pedagogy of the City are two of the most recent of Freire's contributions to what he and Ira Shor call "talking books" in their earlier collaboration in this genre, A Pedagogy for Liberation: Dialogues on...

Representative men: unfreezing the male gaze.
October 1, 1994... A new idea and force now seem upon us. The feminist hegemony that has dominated film discourse for the past twenty years seems to be bringing forth a new way of considering the relationship of men and male subjectivity to film, dramatically...

Uncritical Theory: Postmodernism, Intellectuals, and the Gulf War.
October 1, 1994... Norris's long campaign in defense of Enlightenment values and against extreme postmodern relativism and the political ineffectiveness of left intellectuals has reached a powerful point in the context of the atrocities of the Gulf War. In The...

Bodies That Matter.
October 1, 1994... Since the late 1960s feminism has undergone a rapid retreat from a theory of politics as the revolutionary struggle to transform exploitative social conditions and has advanced toward a notion of politics as the ethical "management" of...

Adult Comics: An Introduction.
October 1, 1994... The comic book as a recognized popular phenomenon has never lacked critics and supporters, but only in recent years has academic attention been paid to it. The Popular Culture Associatmon now has an area for research into the field of Comic Art...

Harmonic Learning: Keynoting School Reform.
October 1, 1994... Educational reform has been repeatedly mandated, but many changes have been primarily cosmetic. In Harmonic Learning, James Moffett shares his ideas about how a true reformation might best be accomplished. These suggestions move beyond...

Meaning Over Memory: Recasting the Teaching of Culture and History.
October 1, 1994... Peter N. Stearns argues that humanities education should be restructured according to the conceptual skills of generating and interpreting knowledge rather than the mnemonic skills of retaining facts. This is hardly an original idea. It...

Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies.
October 1, 1994... Rey Chow employs the term diaspora to refer primarily to a space occupied by a certain type of intellectual in the postcolonial world of multinational capitalism. This term is defined in two directions: first, in relation to the intellectual's...