CONTENTS

From the Editor

ARTICLES

On Academic Discourse
RICHARD MARIUS

Experimental Critical Writing
MARIANNA TORGOVNICK

The Return of/to the Essay
G. DOUGLAS ATKINS

Academic Careers in the Nineties: Images and Realities
MARY BURGAN

SPECIAL SECTION

The English Coalition Conference Report: Seven Responses

The English Coalition Conference: A Pocket of Wye
ROBERT D. DENHAM

The English Coalition and the English Major
PAUL B. ARMSTRONG

Plantation Politics: The English Coalition and Its Report
CHRISTOPHER CLAUSEN

Going Beyond the English Coalition Report
C. BARRY CHABOT

Reclaiming the Realm of Pleasure: A Response to the English Coalition Report
LLOYD MICHAELS

The English Coalition Conference: “Plain Living and High Thinking”
DORIS H. MERIWETHER

Making the English Coalition Report a Reality
PHYLLIS ALLRAN BARBER

BOOK REVIEW

Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory by Barbara Herrnstein Smith
E. ANN KAPLAN