Just being difficult?
Subtitle: academic writing in the public arena
By: edited by Jonathan Culler and Kevin Lamb.
Contributors: Culler, Jonathan D.; Lamb, Kevin, 1975-
Series: Cultural memory in the present
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Academic writing; Scholarly publishing; Learning and scholarship; English language -- Style; English language -- Rhetoric; College teachers -- Language
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Difficult style and "Illustrious" vernaculars : a historical perspective / Margaret Ferguson; title: Hume's learned and conversible worlds / Robin Valenza and John Bender; title: Bad writing and good philosophy / Jonathan Culler; title: The metaphysics of clarity and the freedom of meaning / John McCumber; title: Feminism's broken English / Robyn Wiegman; title: The resistance of theory ; or, The worth of agony / Rey Chow; title: Styles of intellectual publics / Michael Warner; title: On difficulty, the avant-garde, and critical moribundity / Peter Brooks; title: Difficulty in modern poetry and aesthetics / Robert Kaufman; title: Bad writing / Barbara Johnson; title: The morality of form, or, What's "bad" about "bad writing"? / David Palumbo-Liu; title: The politics of the production of knowledge : an interview with Gaytari Chakravorty Spivak / Stuart J. Murray; title: Values of difficulty / Judith Butler.