Volume 9, Numbers 1-2
Anthologies propose canonical formations and implicate their subjects in political and cultural directions. Just as anthologies can empower subjects, ideologies, and canons, making them relevant to students and faculty, they can also disempower them and make them irrelevant. Anthologies have consequences, and are grounded in commitments; articulating these consequences and commitments is a priority in higher education today.
Contents
David Damrosch
World Literature Today: From the Old World to the Whole World
Lynn Z. Bloom
Once More to the Essay: The Essay Canon and Textbook Anthologies
Karen L. Kilcup
Anthologizing Matters: The Poetry and Prose of Recovery Work
Richard S. Pressman
Is There a Future for the Heath Anthology in the Neo-Liberal State?
Cris Mazza
Editing Postfeminist Fiction: Finding the Chic in Lit
Terry Caesar
Retreating to English: Anthologies, Literature and Theory in Japan
Gerald Graff and Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Anthologies, Literary Theory and the Teaching of Literature: An Exchange
David B. Downing
The ‘Mop-up’ Work of Theory Anthologies: Theorizing the Discipline and the Disciplining of Theory
Robert L. McLaughlin
Anthologizing Contemporary Literature: Aesthetic, Cultural, Pedagogical, and Practical Considerations
Alan D. Schrift
Confessions of an Anthology Editor
Simon Wortham
Anthologizing Derrida
Vincent B. Leitch
On Anthology Headnotes