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Volume 105 - November 1990

Contents

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Special Topic: The Politics of Critical Language

  • The Profession of Theory

  • David Kaufmann
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    23 October 2020, pp. 519-530

  • The recent expansion of literary theory and the invocation of politics in this theory contribute and respond to the tensions sustaining literature departments. Though created and nourished by specialization, the profession bases its legitimation on a generalist ideology that opposes or denies the reification on which the profession depends. This justification claims an important political function for literature departments, but theory's structures of self-presentation, as well as the exigencies of a bureaucratized academy, undermine these political ends. In literary theory, a misleading conflation of institutional and national politics is absolutely unavoidable. To maintain the allimportant fiction of the general utility of literary study, one must elide the difference between the politics of the university and those of the republic. Theory is essential to the institutions sustaining literary study and necessarily more and less political than it might claim.

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  • Martin Luther King, Jr., and His Sources

  • Suzanne C. Cole
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    23 October 2020, pp. 1125-1126
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  • Poetics against Itself

  • Patrick D. Murphy
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    23 October 2020, p. 304
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Index

  • Forums and Special Events

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    23 October 2020, p. 1346

  • Each meeting in this Program has been assigned a number; in the following list, numbers in parentheses refer to meeting numbers in the Program.

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  • Poetics against Itself

  • Kenneth R. Johnston
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    23 October 2020, pp. 531-532
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The Association in 1990

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Index

  • Division Meetings

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    23 October 2020, pp. 1347-1348

  • Each meeting in this Program has been assigned a number; in the following list, numbers in parentheses refer to meeting numbers in this Program.

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  • Poetics against Itself

  • R. Lane Kauffmann
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    23 October 2020, pp. 304-305
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  • The Varieties of Choice

  • Zacharias P. Thundy
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    23 October 2020, p. 1127
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  • Discussion Group Meetings

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    23 October 2020, p. 1349

  • Each meeting in this Program has been assigned a number; in the following list, numbers in parentheses refer to meeting numbers in the Program. ∗Denotes closed meeting.

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  • The Fall(?) of the Old English Female Poetic Image

  • Frederic Amory
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    23 October 2020, p. 533
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