Bill Readings

Biographic Data

ID1339832
NAMEBill Readings
GIVEN NAMESBill
FAMILY NAMEReadings
SIGNATUREREADINGS B
AFFILIATIONSSyracuse University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT14
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
H-INDEX2

  • Le canon et ses suites: Entre concept et figure

    Open AccessBill ReadingsARTICLEThéologiques2009

    II s’agit d’une étude du débat sur l’autorité du canon en études littéraires et religieuses aux États-Unis qui argumente, à partir de la lecture freudienne de la Bible dans Moïse et le monothéisme , en vue d’une approche du canon comme figure de l’état non originaire de la culture plutôt que comme objet déterminé par son contenu intrinsèque ou des contraintes externes

  • Presence: A Commonplace in Walter Benjamin

    Brian Neville, Brian G R Neville et al.CHAPTERMapping Benjamin2003

  • Pagans, Perverts or Primitives? Experimental Justice in the Empire of Capital

    Open AccessBill ReadingsCHAPTERPosthumanism2000

  • Postmodern Ethics

    Will Wheeler, Wendy Wheeler et al.ARTICLEThe Modern Language Review1997

  • The University in Ruins

    Bill ReadingsBOOKUniversity in Ruins1997

    It is no longer clear what role the University plays in society. The structure of the contemporary University is changing rapidly, and we have yet to understand what precisely these changes will mean. Is a new age dawning for the University, the renaissance of higher education under way? Or is the University in the twilight of its social function, the demise of higher education fast approaching

  • The University in Ruins

    John H Frye, Bill ReadingsARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1997

  • Privatising culture: "Reflections on jean-françois lyotard's "ofkos

    Bill ReadingsARTICLEAngelaki1997

  • Vision and Textuality

    Bill Readings, Stephen MelvilleBOOKVision and Textuality1995

  • Dwelling in the Ruins

    Open AccessBill ReadingsARTICLEOxford Literary Review1995

    Those of us who, like me, have found the University a place where a critical function has in the past been possible, have to face up to the fact that our current gains in critical freedom (unimaginable shifts in the institutional face of new programs, etc.) are being achieved in direct proportion to the reduction in their general social significance. This is not in itself any reason to abandon projects for change or innovation. Far from it. But w…

  • The University Without Culture

    Bill ReadingsARTICLENew Literary History1995Cited by: 2

    The University without Culture? Bill Readings (bio) I. Culture It is very tempting to see what Gerald Graff has called the “culture wars” as a healthy sign that the debate on United States national culture is once more taking place where it ought to, in the university. 1 Bliss is it in this dawn to be alive, but to be tenured and approaching middle age seems very heaven! 2 Yet is the United States a “country in romance . . . where reason seems th…

  • For a Heteronomous Cultural Politics: The University, Culture and the State

    Open AccessBill ReadingsARTICLEOxford Literary Review1993Cited by: 3

  • An Age too Late”: Milton and the Time of Literary History

    Bill ReadingsARTICLEExemplaria1992

  • An Age too Late”: Milton and the Time of Literary History

    Bill ReadingsARTICLEExemplaria1992

  • Canon and On: From Concept to Figure

    Bill ReadingsARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1989

    Journal Article Canon and On: From Concept to Figure Get access Bill Readings Bill Readings Bill Readings is Assistant Professor of English at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244–1170 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LVII, Issue 1, Spring 1989, Pages 149–172, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LVII.1.149 Published: 01 March 1989