Rhetorical occasions:essays on humans and the humanities

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bérubé Michael 1961-
Published: University of North Carolina Press,
Publisher Address: Chapel Hill
Publication Dates: c2006.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Carrier Form: x, 348 p.: ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0807830674
9780807830673
0807857777
9780807857779
Index Number: C171
CLC: C171.2
G171.22
Call Number: C171.2/B552
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Sokal hoax for beginners -- The return of realism and the future of contingency -- Of fine clothes and naked emperors -- The utility of the arts and humanities -- There is nothing inside the text; or, why no one's heard of Wolfgang Iser -- Citizens of the world, unite: Martha Nussbaum's plan for cultivating humanity -- American studies without exceptions -- Idolatries of the marketplace: Thomas Frank, cultural studies, and the voice of the people -- Days of future past -- Teaching to the six -- Working for the U: on the thetoric of "affiliation" -- Dream a little dream -- Professing and