Tuesday, March 16, 2004
Coming later this week
Comments on Spain; more on Naderite denial; and another another new essay, this one on the early career of Stanley Fish, with nary a word about golf. It’s called “There is Nothing Inside the Text, or, Why No One’s Heard of Wolfgang Iser,” and it’s just appeared in Postmodern Sophistry: Stanley Fish and the Critical Enterprise, edited by Gary A. Olson and Lynn Worsham (SUNY Press, 2004). I’ll have a few words to say about the essay, but more than a few words to say about Terry Eagleton’s essay in the same volume. In the meantime, my apologies to all my readers for the paucity of real posts over the past week-- it seems that I am the slowest paper grader in all of academe, spending an average of 45 minutes on each 1500-word undergraduate essay. About 25 hours total. Advice is welcome, as always.
