English Inside and Out
50th Session
August 22-25, 1991
Longfellow Hall
13 Appian Way
Harvard University
The Institutions of English
SUSAN GUBAR, Indiana University
Directed The Institutions of English
JONATHAN KAMHOLTZ, University of Cincinnati
Directed The Institutions of English
ALVIN KERNAN, Princeton University
What We Might Plausibly and Helpfully Say About Literature
LESLIE FIEDLER, SUNY Buffalo
The Canon and the Classroom: A Caveat
GEOFFREY HARTMAN, Yale University
English As Something Else
STANLEY FISH, Duke University
The Unbearable Ugliness of Volvos
JANE GALLOP, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
The Institutionalization of Feminist Criticism
EDWARD SAID, Columbia University
Literature and Deterrence
HOUSTON A. BAKER, JR., University of Pennsylvania
African-American Studies and the Development of English
EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK, Duke University
Socratic Raptures, Socratic Ruptures
CLIFFORD H. SISKIN, University of Chicago
Academic Discourse and ‘Preaching to the Converted’
Representing Practices
SUSAN STEWART, Temple University
Directed Representing Practices
JOHN BRENKMAN, CUNY Graduate Center
Multiculturalism and Criticism
JONATHAN GOLDBERG, The Johns Hopkins University
Sodomitries
HENRY SUSSMAN, SUNY Buffalo
Versions of the Literary Grandiose
Historicizing Lyric Poetry
MICHAEL MCKEON, Rutgers University
Directed Historicizing Lyric Poetry
RICHARD L. HALPERN, University of Colorado, Boulder
‘Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations’: The Domain of Early Modern Lyric
DOUGLAS LANE PATEY, Smith College
‘Aesthetics’ and the Rise of Lyric in the Eighteenth Century
CLIFFORD H. SISKIN, SUNY Stony Brook
The Lyricization of Labor