Academic Instincts

Academic Instincts

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-187

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2. Quoted in Gail Collins, "A Knick Reborn," New York Times, November 16, 1999, A31.
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9. In fact, as Nicolson points out, detectives, like scholars, follow one of only two investigative methods: the Baconian accumulation of details or the Descartian method of "intuition."
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11. cited in Walter S. Houghton, Jr., "The English Virtuosi in the Seventeenth Century," Journal of the History of Ideas 3.1 (1942): 52.
12. Houghton, 58, 63. Mark Girouard, Life in the English Country House (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978), 165, 172.
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19. Timothy P. Duffy, "The Gender of Letters: Charles Eliot Norton and the Decline of the Amateur Intellectual Tradition," New England Quarterly 69.1 (1996): 91-109. The following discussion of Norton is greatly indebted to Duffy's essay. 12.
20. The quoted passage comes from the bequest of by C. C. Stillman (Harvard class of 1898)in1925, which established the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry.
21. Letters of Charles Eliot Norton, ed. Sara Norton and M. A. Dewolfe Howe, 2 vols. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913), 2:77, cited in Duffy.
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24. Duffy, 108-9.
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29. Quoted in Tom Scocca, "Going Public," Lingua Franca, March 1999, 9.
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35. [William Whewell], "The Connection of the Sciences by Mrs. Somerville," Quarterly Review 101 (1834): 59.
36. See also Sydney Ross, "Scientist: The Story of a Word," Annals of Science 18 (1962): 6585, where it is suggested that Whewell himself was "the ingenious gentleman."
37. Snow used the term in "The Two Cultures," New Statesman, October 6, 1956. It then became the title of his famous Rede Lecture in 1959 and the subsequently published book. 30.
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42. Book Review section, 12. Michael Pakenham, "Edward O. Wilson's 'Consilience'-A Heroic Call to Make Knowledge Coherent," Sun (Baltimore), March 22, 1998, 4F.
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47. Strauss, p. D3.
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49. "Nation in Brief: EMI Might Have Downed Plane," Atlanta Constitution, July 13, 1998, 4A.
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51. For Snow, of course, the opposing cultures were "literary intellectuals" and "physical scientists."
52. C. P. Snow, The Two Cultures (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), 4.
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55. Dinitia Smith, " 'Queer Theory' Is Entering the Literary Mainstream," New York Times, January 17, 1998, B9.
56. Jesse McKinley, "For the High-Minded, It's Blah, Blah, Blah: Talks Are Cheap for Seekers of Ideas Who Are Willing to Listen," New York Times, June 26, 1999, B9.
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60. Jeffrey Kittay and Peter Edidin, quoted in Susann Brenna, "Literary Magazine Has Its Eye on Humanities," Newsday, January 16, 1991 , sec. 2 ,p. 48.
61. David Yaffe, "Fascinating Rhythm," Lingua Franca, October 1998, 13.
62. Paula Span, "Lingua Franca, the magazine of Naked Academia," Washington Post, May 25, 1993, B1.
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66. Mel Gussow, "A Prospero or a Lear? Nay, Verily a Falstaff," New York Times, November 16, 1998, sec. E, p. 1.
67. Gussow, 1ff.
68. Harold Bloom, The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (London: Oxford University Press, 1973), 14-16.
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71. Bruss, 217.
72. Bruss, 285.
73. Harold Bloom, The Flight to Lucifer: A Gnostic Fantasy (New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1976).
74. Quotes from professors Emory Elliott and Anne A. Cheng, in Scott Heller, "Wearying of Cultural Studies, Some Scholars Rediscover Beauty," Chronicle of Higher Education, December 4, 1998, A15-16.
75. Edward Rothstein, "An Amateur's Love Might Cure the Common Cough," New York Times, January 18, 1999, B2.
76. The scene in question is described in Wayne Booth, For the Love ofIt: Amateuring and Its Rivals (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), 61 .
77. Wendy Lesser, The Amateur: An Independent Life of Letters (New York: Pantheon, 1999), 5.
78. James Shapiro, "The Passionate Observer," New York Times Book Review, February 28, 1999, 12 . 52.
79. R. P. Blackmur, "A Critic's Job of Work," in Hazard Adams, Critical Theory since Plato, rev. ed. (Fort Worth, Tex.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992 ), 885.
80. Adams, p. 884.
81. Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Judgement, trans. James Creed Meredith (Oxford: Clarendon, 1952), 41-89.
82. First line of the song "High Diddle-Dee-Dee," words by Ned Washington, music by Leigh Harline, from Pinocchio (Burbank, Calif.: Walt Disney, 1940).
83. John Dewey, "History of Education" (1907), in The Later Works, ed.Jo Ann Boydston (Carbondale, Ill.: 1990), 17: 183-84.
84. F.C.S. Schiller, "From Plato to Protagoras," in Studies in Humanism (London, 1907), 31.
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86. Derrida, "Plato's Pharmacy," in Dissemination, trans. Barbara Johnson (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981), 108.
87. Soren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Irony: With Constant Reference to Socrates, trans. Lee M. Capel (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989).
88. Lewis Carroll, The Annotated Alice, ed. with intro. and notes by Martin Gardner (New York: New American Library, 1960), 9394,102.
89. In a prose poem by Baudelaire, life is imagined as a hospital in which each sick person longs to be in a different bed. "Cette vie est un hopital oil chaque malade est possede du desir de changer de lit."
90. Charles Baudelaire, Le Spleen de Paris, ch. 48,inOeuvres completes (Paris: Gallimard, 1975), 356.
91. Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899; New York: Modern Library, 1934), 25.
92. Oxford English Dictionary, s.v. '"jealousy,"
93. Oxford English Dictionary, s.v. "envy"
94. Rene Girard, A Theater of Envy: William Shakespeare (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), 4. 10.
95. Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (1976; Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), 4-5, 267.
96. Philip Sidney, Defence of Poesy (1595), ed. Dorothy M. Macar-dle (London: Macmillan, 1962), 12-14.
97. Johann Wolfgang van Goethe, letter to Johann Peter Eckermann, March 23, 1829.
98. Friedrich von Schelling, Philosophie der Kunst, 576.
99. Walter Pater, "The School of Giorgione," in The Renaissance (1877) (New York: Meridian Books, 1961), 132.
100. Oscar Wilde, "The Decay of Lying," in The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, intro. Vyvyan Holland (New York: Harper and Row, 1989, 987.
101. They are: Jerome Friedman, Walter Gilbert, Sheldon Glas-how, Dudley Herschbach, Edwin Krebs, William Lipscomb, Richard Roberts, Mel Schwartz. Melanie Klein, "Envy and Gratitude" (1957), in Envy and Gratitude and OtherWorks, 1946-1963 (New York: Delacorte, 1975), 178-79.
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104. Segal, 45.
105. Jessica Benjamin, The Bonds of Love (New York: Pantheon, 1988),111.
106. Soren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death, trans. Walter Lo-wrie (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1946), 139.
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108. Ann Douglas, The Feminization ofAmerican Culture (New York: Avon, 1977), 123.
109. Elizabeth Haiken, Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997)
110. Adam MarsJones, Venus Envy (London: Chatto and Windus, 1990)
111. Rita Mae Brown, Venus Envy (New York: Bantam, 1993).
112. Kevin Kopelson, Beethoven's Kiss: Pianism, Perversion, and the Mastery ofDesire (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996).
113. David Firestone, "In Television News, an Epidemic of Pencil Envy," New York Times, January 10, 1999, sec. 4,p. 6.
114. Alan Sokal, "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity," Social Text 46/47 (spring/summer 1996): 217-52.
115. Edward Rothstein, "Ideas & Trends: When Wry Hits Your Pi From a Real Sneaky Guy," New York Times, May 26, 1996, sec. 4, p. 6.
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118. Stanley Fish, "Being Interdisciplinary Is So Very Hard to Do," Profession 89, 15-22. 25.
119. Edward Said, "Restoring Intellectual Coherence," MLA Newsletter, spring 1999, 3.
120. Gabriel Schoenfeld, "Death Camps as Kitsch," New York Times, March 16, 1999, A25.
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122. John Leo, "How to Be a Rich Genius," U.S. News & World Report, June 26, 1995, 24.
123. Addison, Spectator 160, in Bond, 3:572-73.
124. Immanuel Kant, Critique ofJudgement, trans. J. H. Bernard (London and New York: Collier Macmillan, 1951), 150. 46.
125. Kant, 153.
126. Or the OED either; see "genius," sense 4: "Natural ability or capacity; the special endowments which fit a man for his peculiar work."
127. Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933; New York: Vintage, 1990), 87, 114.
128. Robert McAlmon, Being Geniuses Together ( 1920-30, rev. 1938 by Kay Boyle; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997).
129. Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927; New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1955), 53-55. 54.
130. Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea, trans. Lloyd Alexander (New York: New Directions, 1964), 30.
131. Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Red-headed League," in Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories 1 (New York: Bantam, 1986), 1:238.
132. Winchester, 177-78.
133. "He teaches himself," notes Roquentin. "He has read everything."
134. G.J. Warnock, English Philosophy since 1900 (London: Oxford University Press, 1958), 172.
135. Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: Vintage, 1979), 193.
136. Wilhelm Dilthey, "The Dream," in William Klubach, Wilhelm Dilthey s Philosophy ofHistory (New York: Columbia University Press, 1956), 103-9. Reprinted in Hans Meyerhoff, ed., The Philosophy of History in Our Time (Garden City, N.J.: Doubleday, 1959), 37-43.I am grateful to Geoffrey Waite for this reference.
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138. "Academic Jargon Is a Cover," letter to the editor, New York Times, March 3, 1999, A22.
139. Paul Hollander, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
140. Timothy J. Lark, University of California, Berkeley
141. Leslie Peters, Gaith-ersburg, Maryland, letters to the editor, New York Times, March 3, 1999, A22.
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143. Aristotle, Poetics, trans., S. H. Butcher (1895; New York: Hill and Wang, 1961), 101-2.
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150. Isaac Disraeli, Amenities ofLiterature 361
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152. Oxford English Dictionary, 2d ed. 'jargon," sb. 3.
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159. Tom Kuntz, "Word for Word: Designer Babble," New York Times, March 28, 1999, sec. 4,p.7.
160. Samuel Johnson, Rambler 163: 4, 1751
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162. Michel Foucault, "What Is an Author?" trans.
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164. Foucault, "What Is an Author?" 131 -32.
165. Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, trans. E.F.N. Jephcott (London and New York: Verso, 1978), 101.
166. OED citations: Monthly Pantheon 1.665 (1808): 1
167. Academy, August 4, 1906, 106.
168. OED citations: Arthur Koestler, Invisible Writing, 40
169. George Orwell, Contemp. Jewish Record 8:169.
170. C. S. Lewis, Letters, June 7, 1934 [1966], 157.
171. Nation, May 28, 1910, 307.
172. Barbara Pym, Quartet in Autumn, ch. 8,p. 74.
173. Lancet, May 20, 1972, 1104.
174. Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia (1951), trans. E.F.N. Jeph- cott (London: Verso, 1978), 110.
175. Adorno, "Words from Abroad," 190.
176. Edward A. Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest ofEn- gland (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1886), 5:545.
177. Cited in Isaac Disraeli, Amenities ofLiterature, 1 :157.
178. Martin Cutts and Chrissie Maher, Gobbledygook (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1984), 7-8.
179. Mary McCarthy, A Charmed Life (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1955), 49.
180. Danziger's View: "Down at the VFW the Susan Faludi Fan Club Holds a Meeting," Los Angeles Times Syndicate, reprinted in Boston Globe, September 25, 1999, A22.
181. Roland Barthes, Criticism and Truth, trans. Katrine Pilcher Keuneman (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987), 42.
182. Barthes, 46 -47 .
183. Biographical note to the Signet Classic edition of 1984 (New York: Penguin, 1950, 1981 ). 54.
184. Orwell, "Politics," 362-65.
185. George Orwell, 1984, Signet Classic Edition (New York: Penguin, 1950, 1981), 246.
186. Orwell, 1984, 254.
187. William Shakespeare, As You Like It, 2 .5.13.
188. "The Trendy Diet That Sizzles: A Counterintuitive Program Reaches Critical Mass," Newsweek, September 6, 1999, 60.
189. Judith Butler, Gender Trouble (New York: Routledge, 1990), 136, 138.
190. Barthes, Criticism and Truth, 51-52.
191. Elmar Holenstein, Roman Jakobson s Approach to Language, trans. Catherine Schelbert and Tarcisius Schelbert (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976), 9.
192. Marianne Moore, The Complete Poems (New York: Macmillan, 1967), 36, 266-67.