Gerald Graff, Ph.D.
"Politics, Language, Deconstruction, Lies and the Reflexive Fallacy," a reply to W. J. T. Mitchell, Salmagundi, 47- 48 (Winter-Spring, 1980), pp. 78-94.
"At Sea About Poetry," discussion of responses in symposium, "What Can Be Said About a Poem in 1980-" Carleton Miscellany, XVIII, no. 1 (Winter, 1979-80), pp. 22-26.
"Who Killed Criticism-" American Scholar, 49, no. 3 (Summer, 1980), pp. 337-55.
Response to Hans-Georg Gadamer, Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, 1, no. 1 (Spring, 1980), pp. 11-13; reprinted in The Horizon of Literature, Paul Hernadi, ed. (Omaha: University of Nebraska Press, 1982).
"Deconstruction as Dogma; or, 'Come Back to the Raft Ag'in, Strether, Honey!'" Georgia Review, XXXIV, no. 2 (Summer, 1980), pp. 404-421.
"The Politics of Composition: A Reply to John Rouse," College English (April, 1980), 852-6.
"Tongue-in Cheek Humanism: A Response to Murray Krieger," ADE Bulletin (Fall, 1981), pp. 18-21.
"Under Our Belt and Off Our Backs: Barth's Letters and Postmodern Fiction," TriQuarterly, 52 (Fall, 1981), pp. 150-65.
"Literature as Assertions," American Criticism in the Postmodernist Age, Michigan Studies in the Humanities, Ira Konigsberg, ed., (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1981), pp. 81-110; rept in American Critics at Work: Examinations of Contemporary Literary Theories (Troy, New York: Whitson Publishing Co., 1984), pp. 81-110.
"Textual Leftism," Partisan Review, XLIX, no. 4 (1982), pp. 558-76.
"The Pseudo-Politics of Interpretation," Critical Inquiry, 9, no. 3 (March, 1983), pp. 597-610; rept in The Politics of Interpretation, W. J. T. Mitchell, ed., (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983).
"Literary Criticism as Social Diagnosis," At the Boundaries: Proceedings of the Northeastern Center for Literary Studies, Herbert L. Sussman, ed., (Boston: Northeastern University, 1983), pp. 1-16.
"Teaching the Humanities," Partisan Review (50th Anniversary Issue), LI (1984), pp. 850-54.
"An Ideological Map of American Literary Criticism," Revue Francais D'Etudes Americaines, 16 (February, 1983), pp. 101-21; rprt revised version, in "American Criticism, Left and Right," Ideology and American Literature: the Nineteenth Century, Sacvan Bercovitch, ed., (Cambridge University Press, 1984), pp. 91-121.
"The University and the Prevention of Culture," Criticism and the University, Gerald Graff and Reginald Gibbons, ed., (Northwestern University Press, 1985), pp. 62-82.
"Humanism and the Hermeneutics of Power, or the Post- Structuralist Two-Step and Other Dances," Boundary 2, special issue on Humanism (spring-Fall, 1984), pp. 495- 505.
Preface to Charles Newman, The Post-Modern Aura (Northwestern University Press, 1985).
"Interpretation on Tlon: A Response to Stanley Fish," New Literary History, XVII (1985-86), pp. 109-117.
"George Orwell and the Class Racket," Salmagundi, 70-71 (Spring-Summer, 1986), pp. 108-28.
"Taking Cover in Coverage," Profession 86 (Modern Language Association publication), 1986, pp. 41-45; reprinted in Critical Reasoning in Contemporary Culture, ed. Richard A. Talaska (Albany, N. Y.: State University of New York Press, 1992), pp. 189-206; reprinted in The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, Vincent Leitch, et. al., eds. (New York: W. W. Norton, 2001), pp. 2056-2066.
"Conversation with Gerald Graff," Critical Exchange, 23 (Summer, 1987), special issue on Gerald Graff, pp. 1-30.
Response to Ellen Messer-Davidow, New Literary History, 19, no. 1, (Autumn, 1987), pp. 135-38.
Response to “Philosophical Base of Feminist Literary Criticisms.” New Literary Criticism 19.1 (Autumn 1987): 135-38. VIEW
"What Should We Be Teaching--When There's No 'We'-" Yale Journal of Criticism, 1, no.2 (Spring, 1988), pp. 189- 211.
"Conflicts Over the Curriculum Are Here to Stay: They Should Be Made Educationally Productive," Chronicle of Higher Education, xxxiv, no. 23 (February 17, 1988), p. A48.
"Teach the Conflicts: An Alternative to Educational Fundamentalism," Literature, Language and Politics, ed., Betty Jean Craige (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1988), pp. 99-109.
"Foreword" to Jerry Herron, Universities and the Myth of Cultural Decline (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1988), pp. 9-19.
"Vital Signs," Village Voice Literary Supplement (October, 1988), pp. 24-25.
"Jargonorama: What We Talk About When We Talk About Lit," Village Voice Literary Supplement ((Jan/Feb 1989), pp. 24, 28.
"Peace Plan for the Canon Wars," with William E. Cain, Nation (March 6, 1989), pp. 310-12; reprinted in National Forum, LXUX, no. 3 (Summer, 1989), pp. 7-9.
"Narrative and the Unofficial Interpretive Culture," in Reading Narrative: Form, Ethics, Ideology, ed. James Phelan (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1989), pp. 3-11.
Determinacy/Indeterminacy," in Critical Terms for Literary Study, ed. Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989), pp. 163- 76.
"The Future of Theory in the Teaching of Literature," in The Future of Literary Theory, ed., Ralph Cohen (New York: Routledge, 1989), pp. 250-67.
"Co-Optation," in The New Historicism, Harold A. Veeser (New York: Routledge, 1989), pp. 168-81; Chinese translation by Lai, shou-cheng, Chai-Weh Quarterly, 1992.
"Teach the Conflicts," South Atlantic Quarterly, 89, no. 1 (Winter, 1990), pp. 51-67; reprinted in The Politics of Liberal Education, ed. Darryl A. Gless and Barbara Herrnstein Smith (Durham, N. C.: Duke University Press, 1992), pp. 57-73.
"Art Press Review," New Art Examiner (September, 1989), pp. 67-68.
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