Just being difficult? : academic writing in the public arena / edited by Jonathan Culler and Kevin Lamb.
Imprint:
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003.
Physical Description:
223 p. ; 24 cm.
Series:
(Cultural memory in the present)
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Difficult style and "Illustrious" vernaculars / Margaret Ferguson -- Hume's learned and conversible worlds / Robin Valenza and John Bender -- Bad writing and good philosophy / Jonathan Culler -- The metaphysics of clarity and the freedom of meaning / John McCumber -- Feminism's broken English / Robyn Wiegman -- The resistance of theory, or, The worth of agony / Rey Chow -- Styles of intellectual publics / Michael Warner -- On difficulty, the avant-garde, and critical moribundity / Peter Brooks -- Difficulty in modern poetry and aesthetics / Robert Kaufman -- Bad writing / Barbara Johnson -- The morality of form, or, What's "bad" about "bad writing"? / David Palumbo-Liu -- The politics of the production of knowledge / Gayatri Spivak -- Values of difficulty / Judith Butler.