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Table of contents :
Difficult style and "Illustrious" vernaculars : a historical perspective / Margaret Ferguson --
Hume's learned and conversible worlds / Robin Valenza and John Bender --
Bad writing and good philosophy / Jonathan Culler --
The metaphysics of clarity and the freedom of meaning / John McCumber --
Feminism's broken English / Robyn Wiegman --
The resistance of theory ; or, The worth of agony / Rey Chow --
Styles of intellectual publics / Michael Warner --
On difficulty, the avant-garde, and critical moribundity / Peter Brooks --
Difficulty in modern poetry and aesthetics / Robert Kaufman --
Bad writing / Barbara Johnson --
The morality of form, or, What's "bad" about "bad writing"? / David Palumbo-Liu --
The politics of the production of knowledge : an interview with Gaytari Chakravorty Spivak / Stuart J. Murray --
Values of difficulty / Judith Butler.

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