Just Being Difficult? - Academic Writing in the Public Arena

Is academic writing, particularly in the disciplines of literary theory and cultural studies, needlessly obscure? The claim has been widely circulated in the media and subject to passionate debate, but it has not been the subject of serious discussion. Just Being Difficult? provides learned and thoughtful analyses of the claim, of those it targets, and of the entire question of how critical writing relates to its intended publics and to audiences beyond them.
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About the author

Jonathan Culler is Senior Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. Kevin Lamb is a graduate student in the English Department at Cornell University.

Product details

• Authors: Culler, Jonathan Culler, Kevin Lamb
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.07.2003
• EAN: 9780804747103
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-4710-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 232 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 345 g
• Series: Cultural Memory in the Present; Cultural Memory in the Present
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies