ns 69 | Fall/Winter 2007

Featuring an interview with MH Abrams, reviews of new books by Walter Benn Michaels, John McGowan, and Paul Smith, plus a special section on online criticism.

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David Shumway

David R. Shumway teaches in American culture and cultural theory at Carnegie Mellon University. His most recent book is Modern Love: Romance, Intimacy, and the Marriage Crisis (2003), and he is currently working on Classic Rockers: The Cultural Significance of the Stars.

Poetry | Fiction | Interviews & Essays | Provocations | Surveying the Field

Surveying the Field

• Ideas of the University: on Christopher Newfield, Ivy and Industry: Business and the Making of the American University, 1880-1980
  Appears in: ns 63-64: Working Class Studies

MR BOOKS

Critics at Work
ed. Jeffrey J. Williams.

Critics at Work offers a guided tour through the central, sometimes confusing and frequently controversial developments in contemporary literary and cultural criticism. The tour guides, however, are not distant observers but have been primary participants in those developments, and they report on theory, cultural studies, the literary canon, the recent focus on race, sexuality, and other identities, the state of the univerisity, and the role of the intellectual. Throughout, they consider the not always easy negotiation of politics and culture.

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