College Literature articles from September 2006

College Literature archives from September 2006

Academic freedom under fire: the case for critical pedagogy.
September 22, 2006... Higher education in the United States appears to be caught in a strange contradiction. By all objective measures, the American academic system is regarded as one of the finest educational systems in the world. A recent study conducted at...

The geopolitical war on U.S. higher education.(Viewpoint essay)
September 22, 2006... The war has unquestionably brought a new level of scrutiny to our politically correct campuses. Once the initial years of the campus culture war had passed, the public decided that campus leftism was either beyond the reach of...

Academic freedom and antiwar dissent in a democratic idiom.
September 22, 2006... The turbulent new century that burst into the nation's collective conscience on 9/11 was born of the prior century's dedication to total violence. Killing without limit, including visions of nuclear annihilation, marked the twentieth century as...

Playing in the dark: racial repression and the new campus crusade for diversity.(Viewpoint essay)
September 22, 2006... Perhaps what puzzles me most about the retooled right-wing assault on the university in the aftermath of 9/11 is the relative silence of progressive voices in response to this challenge, as compared to the cacophonous "culture wars" of earlier...

Sami al-Arian, the politics of injury, and the Academic Bill of Rights.
September 22, 2006... At a meeting on 3 April 2005, the statewide United Faculty of Florida (UFF), the faculty union for public colleges and universities, deliberated two resolutions pertaining to Sami al-Arian. Al-Arian was a member of our union who had been...

Education and the academic left: critical reflections on Todd Gitlin.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2006... Todd Gitlin distinguished himself in the 1980s with well-received books that dealt with the role of the media in the 1960s anti-war movement, with the 1960s scene grounded in his activism with SDS and progressive movements, and with the nature...

The pedagogy of debt.
September 22, 2006... 1. The Shameful Secret of Higher Education I am a statistic. I am one of 100,000,000 on the rolls of student debt. Every month I write out a check for $660 to Sallie Mae. I simply abbreviate the entry in my checkbook as S-M. It hurts. ...

The value of literature as a public institution.(Viewpoint essay)
September 22, 2006... It is not a matter simply of questions that one formulates while submitting oneself... to the principle of reason, but also of preparing oneself thereby to transform modes of writing, approaches to pedagogy, the procedures of...

Why we (still) read Orwell.(George Orwell and the Radical Eccentrics: Intermodernism in Literary London)(On Nineteen Eighty-Four: Orwell and Our Future)(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Bluemel, Kristin. 2004. George Orwell and the Radical Eccentrics: Intermodernism in Literary London. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. $59.95 hc. xi + 246 pp. Gleason, Abbott, Jack Goldsmith, and Martha C. Nussbaum, eds. 2005. On Nineteen...

The function and value of literature and literary studies reconsidered.(A Manifesto for Literary Studies)(Why Does Literature Matter?)(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Garber, Marjorie. 2003. A Manifesto for Literary Studies. Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities Short Studies. Seattle: University of Washington Press. $14.95 sc. 69 pp. Farrell, Frank. 2004. Why Does Literature Matter? Ithaca:...

Rhetorical Women: Roles and Representations.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Miller, Hildy, and Lillian Bridwell-Bowles, eds. 2005. Rhetorical Women: Roles and Representations. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. $60.00 hc. $25.00 sc. viii + 261 pp. When the category under analysis is women, in this case women...

Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... McBride, Dwight A. 2005. Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality. New York: New York University Press. $60.00 hc. $19.00 sc. xvi + 251 pp. In Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch, Dwight A. McBride synthesizes black,...

Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Greenblatt, Stephen. 2004. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. New York: W.W. Norton. $26.95 hc. $14.05 sc. 390 pp. Stephen Greenblatt pursues a painterly rather than linear approach to his biographical tale of Will in...

Books received: April 16, 2006 to July 15, 2006.
September 22, 2006... Berkove, Lawrence I., and Gary Scharnhorst, eds. 2006. The Old West in the Old World: Lost Plays by Bret Harte and Sam Davis. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. $34.95 hc. 227 pp. Bona, Mary Jo, and Irma Maini, eds. 2006....