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WALTER BENN MICHAELS (1948 - )

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CONFERENCES

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

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• Edited Works:

  • The American Renaissance Reconsidered.  Ed. Michaels and Donald E. Pease.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1985.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality.  New York: Holt Metropolitan, 2006.

  • The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 2004.

  • "The Shape of the Signifier."  Critical Inquiry 27.2 (2001): 266-283.

  • "Political Science Fictions."  New Literary History 31.4 (2000): 649-664.

  • "Autobiography of an Ex-White Man: Why Race is Not a Social Construction."  Transition 73 7.1 (1998): 122-43.

  • Our America: Nativism, Modernism and Pluralism.  Durham: Duke UP, 1995.

  • "Race into Culture: a Critical Genealogy of Cultural Identity."  Critical Inquiry 18 (1992): 655- 685.

    • Identities.  Ed. Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995. 

  • "Intention, Identity, and the Constitution."  By Michaels and Steven Knapp.  Legal Hermeneutics.  Ed. Gregory Leyh.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1992.  187-199.

  • "Against Theory 2: Hermeneutics and Deconstruction."  By Michaels and Steven Knapp.  Critical Inquiry 14.1 (1987): 49-68.

  • The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism: American Literature at the Turn of the Century.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1987.

  • "The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism."  Representations 9 (1985): 105-132.

  • "A Reply to Richard Rorty: What is Pragmatism?"  By Michaels and Steven Knapp.  Critical Inquiry 11.3 (1985): 466-473.

  • "A Reply to Our Critics."  By Michaels and Steven Knapp.  Critical Inquiry 9.4 (1983): 790-800.

  • “Against Theory.”  By Michaels and Steven Knapp.  Critical Inquiry 8.4 (1982): 723-42. 

    • Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.  Ed. Vincent Leitch, et al.  New York: Norton, 2001.  2460-2475.

    • Against Theory: Literary Study and the New Pragmatism.  Ed. W. J. T. Mitchell.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1985.  11-18; 24-30.

  • "Is There a Politics of Interpretation?"  Critical Inquiry 9.1 (1982): 248- 258.

  • "Against Formalism: the Autonomous Text in Legal and Literary Interpretation."  Poetics Today 1.1-2 (1979): 23-34.

  • "Saving the Text: Reference and Belief." Modern Language Notes 93.5 (1978): 771-793.

  • "The Interpreter's Self: Pierce on the Cartesian 'Subject.'"  Georgia Review 31 (1977): 383-402. 
    • Reader-Response Criticism: from Formalism to Structuralism.  Ed. Jane Tompkins.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1980.  185-200.

On-Line:

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Diversity's False Solace New York Times Magazine April 11, 2004

• Selected Interviews:

  • Going Boom Book Forum (February / March 2009)

  • Against Identity: Interview with Jeffrey J. Williams Minnesota Review 55-57 (2002): 125-142

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

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• Selected Individual Works:

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On-Line:

• Singh, Amardeep: 'What Skin Color the Rich Kids Should Have': Benn Michaels on Affirmative Action

• Star, Alexander: Don't Look Back: a Proposal for Our Roots-Obsessed Culture New Yorker February 3, 1997

• Wikipedia: Walter Benn Michaels

• Wolfe, Alan: Walter Benn Michaels' The Trouble With Diversity Slate Magazine October 3, 2006

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