... regarding close reading and “the New Criticism,” the movement associated with it, and at how the practice has figured in Anglo-American literary studies over the course of the past century. It turns then to how a certain idea of “close reading” has come to figure in the discourses of the digital humanities...

...Jeffrey J. Williams © 2007 the minnesota review 2007 Jeffrey J. Williams Writing with Texts: An Interview with David Bartholomae Composition is the main artery of English departments. A course in composition or basic writing is a requirement that almost every university has...

... Bulletin 25 ( Winter 1978-9 ): 51 - 3 . Macdonald Larry . `` The New American Movement .'' Cong. Rec. 5 Sept. 1975 : 97 - 8 . MacLean Judy . New American Movement: An Introductory Course . Chicago : New American Movement , 1976 . NIC Political Education...

... and all continuing education courses represent a significant part of recent CUNY growth. According to Ellen Ballesein in the faculty/staff union (PSC/CUNY) newspaper, The Clarion, "Adult and continuing education programs, once a sideline to CUNY's main mission, now account...

... for Working Class Studies get started? Was there a conscious plan from the start, or did some set of events set things in motion? Russo We started out simply to get a higher profile for what we were doing. In 1995 we had been teaching courses over at the union hall, courses for people on the swing...

... imagine that lower level writing courses in four year colleges and universities teach students how to spell and construct grammatical sentences and paragraphs; however, such coursework (defined as "remedial" in UC Senate Rule 761B) actually comprises a very small portion of the basic writing...

... "University Leadership Team" (to use their self-appointed moniker) display such rigid opposition to the continuation of a beneficial arrangement? There are many answers to this, but a preliminary one is: because they can. If any one event decisively influenced the administration's course...

...-structuralism. For a few years I also 64 the minnesota review taught Renaissance poetry in Penn’s English department. Then, in the early 1980s, I began teaching the introductory course on literary theory in their new graduate program in comparative literature, and, as it turned out, I would...

... and identify the arguments, which I found very interesting. That was the way I really got into New Criticism. It was a moment at which New Criticism at Harvard was something a little bit dangerous, a little racy. Reuben Brower’s course, Hum 6, attracted the most ambitious...

... started with a Chronicle [of Higher Education] essay I wrote on dealing with a disruptive student in a seminar. It turns out to be incredibly difficult to try to describe entire courses. The amount of labor that goes into a course comes to hundreds and hundreds of pages when put...

... text in which each of four players “follows his particular course” along the vectors of a quadrangle (289). In this schematized play, the diachronic dimensions are provided all at once in a compressed list of action sequences that seem more fitting for a geometric theorem than for a set...

..., it’s changed dramatically, of course. There are institu- tional histories involved. I remember a colleague at Sussex where I taught from 1979 to 1992 suggesting that the reason I had had no opposition in teaching psychoanalysis in humanities classes in Eng- land was because...

...  It was a very general one. Remember I came from a Muslim background and of course Orientalism had been, as you know from Edward Said’s book, very much focused on the study of Islam and the Middle East. In that sense I had been very aware of Orientalists early on. And of course my father, who...

... was going on, and you were part of a group that was discovering this. Miller I taught my first course on French women writers in 1977. The Committee on Instruction had to approve all the courses, so when I proposed the seminar, I probably benefited from the fact that I...

... of Romanticism for a generation, Abrams has had a great deal of influence in the undergraduate classroom, with his A Glossary of Literary Terms (1957; 9th ed. 2008), and of course The Norton Anthology of English Literature (1962; 8th ed. 2005). His was the first of the Bible-thick...

... American faculty finds itself in decline, if not quite in full eclipse, becomes readily apparent over the course of Schuster and Finkelstein’s narrative. But one need not take their word for it. Survey data reported in the back of the book suggest declining levels of respect...

... of, and training for, the speed-up taking place at all levels of our profession. Speed-up for grad students is often packaged in a language of opportunity, privilege, perk, or reward. The opportunities offered to add to our workloads come in the form of courses to teach, committees...

..., and transforming that character. He called it Revolution Decon- structed, a sign that a new Cultural Revolution, this time at the level of 142 the minnesota review the visual arts, was in progress. And of course you remember that in 1989 the young artists were part of the vanguard of the Tiananmen...

... something of importance to people, not just present some academic analysis. These were courses people never forgot, and still mention to me. So the influence of both Rawls and Cavell on me was very great. The third person who influenced me greatly around this time was Bernard...

... with drink. In the course of his climactic, doomed lecture, our anti-hero will have proven himself unfit for the teaching profession and, more happily, drawn the approval of a rich patron who will offer him suitable employment in faraway London. But before this happens, while...