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Rhetorical Occasions: Essays on Humans and the Humanities (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780807857779)
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xA nationally known scholar, essayist, and public advocate for the humanities, Michael Bérubé has a rapier wit and a singular talent for parsing complex philosophical, theoretical, and political questions. Rhetorical Occasions collects twenty-four of his major essays and reviews, plus a sampling of entries on literary theory and contemporary culture from his award-winning weblog.
Selected to showcase the range of public writing available to scholars, the essays are grouped into five topical sections: the Sokal hoax and its effects on the humanities; cosmopolitanism, American studies, and cultural studies; daily academic life inside and outside the classroom; the events of September 11, 2001, and their political aftermath; and the potential discursive and tonal range of academic blog writing. In lively and entertaining prose, Bérubé offers a wide array of interventions into matters academic and nonacademic. By example and illustration, he reminds readers that the humanities remain central to our understanding of what it means to be human.
Author: Michael Bérubé
ISBN-10: 0807857777
ISBN-13: 9780807857779
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Language: English
Published: 10/09/2006
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.06w x 0.85d
Selected to showcase the range of public writing available to scholars, the essays are grouped into five topical sections: the Sokal hoax and its effects on the humanities; cosmopolitanism, American studies, and cultural studies; daily academic life inside and outside the classroom; the events of September 11, 2001, and their political aftermath; and the potential discursive and tonal range of academic blog writing. In lively and entertaining prose, Bérubé offers a wide array of interventions into matters academic and nonacademic. By example and illustration, he reminds readers that the humanities remain central to our understanding of what it means to be human.
Author: Michael Bérubé
ISBN-10: 0807857777
ISBN-13: 9780807857779
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Language: English
Published: 10/09/2006
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.06w x 0.85d
By Michael Bérubé
xMichael Bérubé is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature at Pennsylvania State University, where he is also director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities. His six books include What's Liberal about the Liberal Arts?: Classroom Politics and "Bias" in Higher Education and Life As We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child. He writes frequently for many national publications and hosts the blog www.michaelberube.com.
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