Academic Instincts by Marjorie Garber (English) Paperback Book

Description: Academic Instincts by Marjorie Garber Explores the pleasures and pitfalls of the academic life. This title discusses three of the perennial issues that have surfaced in debates about the humanities: the relation between "amateurs" and "professionals," the relation between one academic discipline and another, and the relation between "jargon" and "plain language." FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In this lively and provocative book, cultural critic Marjorie Garber, who has written on topics as different as Shakespeare, dogs, cross-dressing, and real estate, explores the pleasures and pitfalls of the academic life. Academic Instincts discusses three of the perennial issues that have surfaced in recent debates about the humanities: the relation between "amateurs" and "professionals," the relation between one academic discipline and another, and the relation between "jargon" and "plain language." Rather than merely taking sides, the book explores the ways in which such debates are essential to intellectual life. Garber argues that the very things deplored or defended in discussions of the humanities cannot be either eliminated or endorsed because the discussion itself is what gives humanistic thought its vitality.Written in spirited and vivid prose, and full of telling detail drawn both from the history of scholarship and from the daily press, Academic Instincts is a book by a well-known Shakespeare scholar and prize-winning teacher who offers analysis rather than polemic to explain why todays teachers and scholars are at once breaking new ground and treading familiar paths.It opens the door to an important nationwide and worldwide conversation about the reorganization of knowledge and the categories in and through which we teach the humanities. And it does so in a spirit both generous and optimistic about the present and the future of these disciplines. Notes I have been waiting for years for a book about my profession as vital and zesty as Academic Instincts. Now Marjorie Garber has written it with her customary fireworks, learning, and flair. It should change our minds about academic life--for the better. -- Catharine R. Stimpson, New York University In Academic Instincts--a bravura inspection of various foibles and follies currently besetting the academic humanities--Marjorie Garber reveals herself as an ideal tour guide: energetic, canny, jocund, illuminating, and as wicked as she needs to be. Yet even as she skewers the amour-propre of contemporary pedants and pullulaters, she also offers a passionate defense of the intellectual enterprise itself. Garbers book is solace as well as sortie: a potent affirmation of our noblest academic instincts and the quest after truth they continue to embody. -- Terry Castle, Stanford University Marjorie Garbers Academic Instincts is a light, tripping, subtle argument in defense of the academic profession. It is itself a fascinating instance of refusing to have arbitrary lines drawn between things: between old masterpieces and contemporary works, between art and the rest of the world, between criticism and conversation. -- Alexander Nehamas, Princeton University Back Cover "I have been waiting for years for a book about my profession as vital and zesty as Academic Instincts. Now Marjorie Garber has written it with her customary fireworks, learning, and flair. It should change our minds about academic life--for the better." --Catharine R. Stimpson, New York University " In Academic Instincts --a bravura inspection of various foibles and follies currently besetting the academic humanities--Marjorie Garber reveals herself as an ideal tour guide: energetic, canny, jocund, illuminating, and as wicked as she needs to be. Yet even as she skewers the amour-propre of contemporary pedants and pullulaters, she also offers a passionate defense of the intellectual enterprise itself. Garbers book is solace as well as sortie: a potent affirmation of our noblest academic instincts and the quest after truth they continue to embody." --Terry Castle, Stanford University "Marjorie Garbers Academic Instincts is a light, tripping, subtle argument in defense of the academic profession. It is itself a fascinating instance of refusing to have arbitrary lines drawn between things: between old masterpieces and contemporary works, between art and the rest of the world, between criticism and conversation." --Alexander Nehamas, Princeton University Flap "I have been waiting for years for a book about my profession as vital and zesty as Academic Instincts. Now Marjorie Garber has written it with her customary fireworks, learning, and flair. It should change our minds about academic life--for the better."-- Catharine R. Stimpson, New York University " In Academic Instincts --a bravura inspection of various foibles and follies currently besetting the academic humanities--Marjorie Garber reveals herself as an ideal tour guide: energetic, canny, jocund, illuminating, and as wicked as she needs to be. Yet even as she skewers the amour-propre of contemporary pedants and pullulaters, she also offers a passionate defense of the intellectual enterprise itself. Garbers book is solace as well as sortie: a potent affirmation of our noblest academic instincts and the quest after truth they continue to embody."-- Terry Castle, Stanford University "Marjorie Garbers Academic Instincts is a light, tripping, subtle argument in defense of the academic profession. It is itself a fascinating instance of refusing to have arbitrary lines drawn between things: between old masterpieces and contemporary works, between art and the rest of the world, between criticism and conversation."-- Alexander Nehamas, Princeton University Author Biography Marjorie Garber is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English at Harvard University and Director of Harvards Humanities Center in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The author of ten books, most recently Quotation Marks and The Medusa Reader, she is also the editor of many collections of essays and a regular contributor to the New York Times, the Atlantic Monthly, and other publications. Table of Contents Preface ix Chapter 1: The Amateur Professional and the Professional Amateur 3 Chapter 2: Discipline Envy 53 Chapter 3: Terms of Art 97 Notes: 149 Index 181 Review "Seductively slim, witty ...The book is, in effect, an elegant demonstration of the nature of dialectical thinking as applied to some of the hot topics of the recent culture wars."--The Economist "It is sometimes more provoking than provocative, but it is always interesting. In her willingness to theorize on just about any subject and her delight in taking eccentric positions, I dont believe there is anyone like Marjorie Garber writing today."--Katherine Govier, Toronto Globe and Mail "Garbers own writing is, as you would hope, admirably clear. She does a fine job of persuading us that these controversies are a sign of cultural vitality..."--Jon Turney, New Scientist "Academic Instincts reminds humanists and scientists alike that their professional languages require thoughtful attention, discussion, and scholarship."--John Ramsey, Ruminator Review "More breezy than scholarly in this book, Garber straddles the divide between the academy and the popular press with aplomb. Reading Academic Instincts is like sharing the newspaper with a current events junkie who cant help but comment on everything that catches her eye."--Leah Platt, American Prospect Promotional I have been waiting for years for a book about my profession as vital and zesty as Academic Instincts. Now Marjorie Garber has written it with her customary fireworks, learning, and flair. It should change our minds about academic life--for the better. -- Catharine R. Stimpson, New York University In Academic Instincts--a bravura inspection of various foibles and follies currently besetting the academic humanities--Marjorie Garber reveals herself as an ideal tour guide: energetic, canny, jocund, illuminating, and as wicked as she needs to be. Yet even as she skewers the amour-propre of contemporary pedants and pullulaters, she also offers a passionate defense of the intellectual enterprise itself. Garbers book is solace as well as sortie: a potent affirmation of our noblest academic instincts and the quest after truth they continue to embody. -- Terry Castle, Stanford University Marjorie Garbers Academic Instincts is a light, tripping, subtle argument in defense of the academic profession. It is itself a fascinating instance of refusing to have arbitrary lines drawn between things: between old masterpieces and contemporary works, between art and the rest of the world, between criticism and conversation. -- Alexander Nehamas, Princeton University Long Description In this lively and provocative book, cultural critic Marjorie Garber, who has written on topics as different as Shakespeare, dogs, cross-dressing, and real estate, explores the pleasures and pitfalls of the academic life. Academic Instincts discusses three of the perennial issues that have surfaced in recent debates about the humanities: the relation between "amateurs" and "professionals," the relation between one academic discipline and another, and the relation between "jargon" and "plain language." Rather than merely taking sides, the book explores the ways in which such debates are essential to intellectual life. Garber argues that the very things deplored or defended in discussions of the humanities cannot be either eliminated or endorsed because the discussion itself is what gives humanistic thought its vitality.Written in spirited and vivid prose, and full of telling detail drawn both from the history of scholarship and from the daily press, Academic Instincts is a book by a well-known Shakespeare scholar and prize-winning teacher who offers analysis rather than polemic to explain why todays teachers and scholars are at once breaking new ground and treading familiar paths.It opens the door to an important nationwide and worldwide conversation about the reorganization of knowledge and the categories in and through which we teach the humanities. And it does so in a spirit both generous and optimistic about the present and the future of these disciplines. Review Quote Seductively slim, witty . . .The book is, in effect, an elegant demonstration of the nature of dialectical thinking as applied to some of the hot topics of the recent culture wars. -- The Economist Details ISBN0691115710 Short Title ACADEMIC INSTINCTS Pages 200 Publisher Princeton University Press Language English ISBN-10 0691115710 ISBN-13 9780691115719 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2003 Imprint Princeton University Press Place of Publication New Jersey Country of Publication United States DEWEY 001.30711 Illustrations black & white illustrations Translated from English DOI 10.1604/9780691115719 UK Release Date 2003-09-07 NZ Release Date 2003-09-07 US Release Date 2003-09-07 Author Marjorie Garber Publication Date 2003-09-07 Alternative 9780691049700 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2003-11-16 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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