The Critical Pulse: Thirty-Six Credos by Contemporary Critics

Edited by Jeffrey J. Williams and Heather Steffen

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Paper, 288 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-16115-2
$27.50 / £19.00

September, 2012
Cloth, 288 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-16114-5
$82.50 / £57.00

Web Features:

• Read an interview with Jeffrey J. Williams and Heather Steffen.
• Read a review of The Critical Pulse in Publishers Weekly.
• Read Jeffrey Williams's recent pieces in The Chronicle of Higher Education: Michael Walzer's Politics, in Theory and Practice, Book Angst, and Deconstructing Academe: The birth of critical university studies
• Listen to an interview with Heather Steffen on The Labor of Universities

Related Subjects

• Literary Criticism and Theory

About the Author

Jeffrey J. Williams is professor of English and literary and cultural studies at Carnegie Mellon University. His books include Theory and the Novel: Narrative Reflexivity in the English Tradition; PC Wars: Politics and Theory in the Academy; The Institution of Literature; and Critics at Work: Interviews. He is also a former editor of the minnesota review and coedits the Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. Heather Steffen is a Ph.D. candidate in literary and cultural studies at Carnegie Mellon University. She is working on a dissertation about academic labor and criticism of the university in the Progressive Era.

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