Knowledge work reimagined : lyric life writing and the university
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Postwar academic culture has seen the rise of a literary consciousness and an autobiographical mode. One instantiation of this mode is a contemporary style of writing called "autotheory." While some scholars interpret autotheory as a para-academic literary phenomenon, wishing to trace its lineage outside the university, I show that it is, in fact, rooted in the postwar university, and should be seen as a challenge to prevailing mechanistic epistemologies within the university. As a third way between strictly creative and strictly scholarly writing, autotheory works against prohibitions of self and self-assembly found in a host of humanistic discourses, including philosophy, theory, literary studies, and creative writing. However, I also show that autotheory is a direct outcome of philosophy, specifically the ordinary language philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Stanley Cavell, and that it plays out key elements of that philosophy. The self-assembly that is accomplished by autotheory is neither narcissistic nor "neoliberal." It is an antidote to the radical self-displacements found in knowledge work. These cultures of radical self-displacement, engaged in what I call the search-for-method paradigm, undermine actual insight in favor of scientism and the administration of concepts. In contrast to this, autotheoretical works, and the tradition of lyric philosophy from which they stem, can be seen as recuperating personality, the experience of meaning, and a coherent political consciousness.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2023; ©2023 |
| Publication date | 2023; 2023 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Salvidea, Gabriela Lila |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Greif, Mark |
| Thesis advisor | Greif, Mark |
| Thesis advisor | Greene, Roland |
| Thesis advisor | Landy, Joshua |
| Degree committee member | Greene, Roland |
| Degree committee member | Landy, Joshua |
| Associated with | Stanford University, School of Humanities and Sciences |
| Associated with | Stanford University, English Department |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Gabriela Lila Salvidea. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the English Department. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2023. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/vb046bb8946 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2023 by Gabriela Lila Salvidea
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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