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Volume 99 - October 1984

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  • Dialectics

  • Michael McCanles
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    26 February 2021, pp. 996-997
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  • The Profession and Society, 1958–83

  • Carolyn G. Heilbrun
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    23 October 2020, pp. 408-413

  • Scanning the last twenty-five years in the profession and in society, I wonder: what historian could deal with that time in any comprehensive way? But I wish to speak of those years—in which we witnessed such profound social change—not with the detachment of a historian but rather as a participant who, as a woman, welcomes much that has changed and regrets much that has not. Looking back, I find that the profession has changed less than society has. Academics are a conservative lot—old professors have a tenure more durable than society's institutions, whether for the control of money, or women, or sexuality.

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  • Limited Pluralism

  • Adele Davidson
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    23 October 2020, pp. 242-243
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  • The Arabic Frame Tradition

  • Julie Scott Meisami
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    23 October 2020, pp. 109-111
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  • Society and the Profession, 1958–83

  • Paul Lauter
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    23 October 2020, pp. 414-426

  • The question that he frames in all but words Is what to make of a diminished thing. Robert Frost, “The Oven Bird” When your women are ready and rich in their wish for the world destroy the leaden heart, we've a new race to start. Muriel Rukeyser, “More of a Corpse Than a Woman”

    When I was asked to write about the impact of society on our profession over the last twenty-five years, it occurred to me that the period also measures my own lifetime as a professional. I took up full-time teaching in 1957, the year before I received my doctorate. I gave my first paper at a Modern Language Association convention around that time, participated in producing two sons, and published my first article. I left one job, joined in antinuke, anti-ROTC, and prounion activities, and got fired from the second job. I remember complaining to my graduate school director, en route to a third job, how painfully remote upstate New York seemed from everything I valued. Said he, flatly, “You can publish your way out of any place.” Perhaps that was so, then; certainly I acted on that instruction. But I never really put it to the test, for somehow my career swerved that splinter and never returned quite to the groove.

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  • Documentary Narrative

  • James E. Young
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    26 February 2021, pp. 998-999
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  • Shakespeare's Sonnets

  • Gary Schmidgall
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    23 October 2020, p. 244
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