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- Title: Introduction: Whose Guilt?(Literature) (Viewpoint Essay)
- Author : English Studies in Canada
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 192 KB
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I. "Why me?" that was my first thought when invited to edit a special issue on the topic of guilt for English Studies in Canada. I accepted immediately, although my reasons for doing so were at the time, and are still at the time of this writing, rather mysterious to me. Having no particular critical association with guilt, I have felt ill-equipped to speak on or to edit what others have to say about the topic. I guess this is the immediate response of an academic: to feel guilty that I don't know enough. And if I turned down the opportunity, one of my brighter or more ambitious colleagues would do a better job, which, of course, inevitably she or he would because, well, I'm dumber and lazier. Academic guilt--the worst kind--crystallizes itself when one gives one's first seminar presentation or conference paper, or leaps the tenure and promotion hurdle, or feels guilty for having tenure and promotion when so many don't, or feels not so secretly satisfied that one does but then feels guilty for being happy. As Adam Frank says in his contribution to this issue, even "[t]hinking about guilt ... makes me feel guilty" (11). Or perhaps the attempt to mask my ineptitude is a symptom of the academy's inability to confront its own, a version of Deena Rymhs's statement that "literary criticism avoids dealing with the larger political issues that may shake at its own foundations" (119).
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