Wild Orchids and Trotsky: Messages from American Universities

Introduction : The Academy Writes Back / Mark Edmundson -- Trotsky And The Wild Orchids / Richard Rorty -- My Kinsman, T.s. Eliot / Frank Lentricchia -- Decades / Nancy K. Miller -- Expanding Humanism : An Interview / Edward Said -- In The Waiting Room : Canons, Communities, Political Correctness / Judith Frank -- The Falls Of Academe / William Kerrigan -- Discipline And Theory / Michael Bérubé -- Authority And Originality : An Interview / Harold Bloom -- Crashing The Party : Women In The Academy Now / Susan Fraiman -- Queer And Now / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- Handling Crisis : Great Books, Rap Music, And The End Of Western Homogeneity / Houston A. Baker, Jr. -- Thinking Like Other People / J. Hillis Miller -- Pragmatism And The Sentence Of Death / Richard Poirier. Edited By Mark Edmundson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 339-340).