My Way Speeches and Poems

"The range of topics addressed here is heroic, and an implicit rebuke to the professional narrowness and caution that characterize work in literary studies, whatever the current cliches about canon-busting, border-blurring, and other allegedly subversive activities that promise social change but deliver only tenure. Here by contrast there is some startling and genuinely new thinking on identity politics, the aesthetic, cultural studies, poetry as performance art, and what Bernstein terms 'close listenings'--a characteristic twist on an academic trope....[This is] his most multi-faceted and perhaps his most engaging work to date."Bernstein, Charles is the author of 'My Way Speeches and Poems', published 1999 under ISBN 9780226044101 and ISBN 0226044106.