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Article: Professions: Conversations on the Future of Literary and Cultural Studies.(Book Review)
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- September 22, 2002
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edited by Donald E. Hall. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2001. Pp. 296. $44.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.
This is in every way an admirable book, a necessary book, starting with the good intentions that called it into being--especially because of those good intentions on the part of the editor, Donald E. Hall, who has assembled this anthology of "professions" from scholars, most of them big fish, more or less, who have addressed themselves to the future of literary and cultural studies:
... Professions was born as something of a challenge to myself to
meet an articulated demand from students: to read and have as a
point of ...