Meetings of the Mind

by David Damrosch

Book Overview

Comic in tone and serious in intent, this book gives a vivid portrait of academic life in the nineties. With campus populations and critical perspectives changing rapidly, academic debate needs to look beyond the old ideal of common purposes and communal agreement. How can we learn from people we won't end up agreeing with?

This question is explored by four very different scholars, who meet and argue at a series of comparative literature...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691149380
• ISBN13: 9780691149387
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A delight

A delightful satire of pomo presented as series of four academics who meet regularly at conferences to catch up on theory, life and the interweaving of both. What emerges is not only a semispoof on current academic pretentions but also four real characters (who are real "characters") doing life and time... Many "in" jokes also spice up the work, as well as real litcrit figures. The only complaint I had was the at times draggy mono/dialogues when the theorizing got no longer satiric but just plain boring (of course that is only one textual reading....maybe the boring was part of the satire?) Anyway, worth a read for le jouissance!