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Mark Pollock:

It sounds like you'll be teaching grad students, since it's
a special topics course you'll be offering.  Hope it flies, and if
you can do get a hold of the PBS show mentioned in another message.
Unfortunately, I'm no more help than that message's author, since
I don't remember the title.  I do know that Bill Moyers wasn't a
part of it, but that Buckley, William Bennett, Stanley Fish, the
MLA Pres, and (I think?) Lynn Cheney were.

One name that comes up in current discussions of PC is (as you
probably know) Camille Paglia.  She was featured in the April 1
(no foolin) *Chronicle of Higher Education* and she's been hitting
the rubber chicken circuit pretty hard.  If you put the whole of
her *Sexual Personae* on your reading list, the students might gag,
but there's no harm in running off and distributing portions for
starting a fire on those dull days when the students are cold.

Starting next fall, I'll be teaching in the Great Books program
here at Auburn U.  The faculty have been attending some day-long
seminars as preparation, covering (1) Hispanic and Native
American writings, (2) African, African-American, and Carribean
writing, and (3) this coming Saturday gender and writing.  I've got
(and will get) extensive bibliographies--fiction, criticism, poetry,
history, etc.--and will go through them for some works that might
interest you.

Meanwhile, you might want to check the February, 1991, issue of
*College Composition and Communication* for an essay by
Catherine Lamb, "Beyond Argument in Feminist Composition" (pp.
11-24).  It's quite good.  She pits masculine forms of academic
discourse (logical, assertive, linear reasoning) against feminist
intertextual and intersubjective forms of academic writing,
suggesting that the latter is a better way to build community
and knowledge.  The December, 1991, CCC contains some responses
to Lamb's essay.

Cordially,

Frank D. Walters
Auburn University
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