Cary Nelson and the Struggle for the University: Poetry, Politics, and the Profession

by Rothberg, Michael; Garrett, Peter K.

• ISBN13: 9780791476802
• ISBN10: 0791476804
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-08
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Scholars engage the ideas and legacy of Cary Nelson in conversations about the corporate university, teaching, poetry, and activism.

Author Biography

Michael Rothberg is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation. Peter K. Garrett is Professor of English and Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He is the author of Gothic Reflections: Narrative Force in Nineteenth-Century Fiction.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
An Exemplary Career: Cary Nelson and the Struggle for the University	p. 1
The Canon and the Politics of Poetry	p. 11
Preserving Thresholds: The Scholar in the Museum, Junk Shop, and Library	p. 13
Cary Nelson: Expanding the Canon of American Poetry	p. 31
"We Should Always Read What Other People Assure Us Is No Good": The Good of the No Good	p. 45
The Lives of Haiku Poetry: Self, Selflessness, and Solidarity in Concentration Camp Haiku	p. 59
Contexts, Choruses, and Katabases (Canonical and Non-): Some Methodological Implications of Cary Nelson's Recovery Work	p. 75
Corporatization and the Politics of the Academy	p. 93
Worlds to Win: Toward a Cultural Studies of the University Itself	p. 95
The Organization Man	p. 113
The Humanities, the University, and the Enemy Within	p. 123
Everyday Life at the Corporate University	p. 141
Who's Afraid of Cultural Studies?	p. 159
The Rise of the Global University	p. 167
Pedagogy and the Politics of Mentoring	p. 185
Graduate Mentoring: A Poetics	p. 187
Empire and the Anxiety of Influence	p. 193
Learning My Professional Responsibilities	p. 201
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men	p. 205
Cary Nelson at the Naval Academy	p. 209
Without Shame: On Cary Nelson's Legacy	p. 217
Afterword
Activism and Community in the Academy	p. 221
List of Contributors	p. 231
Index	p. 235
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