...their first names in print: an institutionally authorized personalism. But at its best, I would argue, the personal in these texts is at odds with the hierarchies...new repertory for an enlivening cultural criticism. Is there a woman in this text? Mary Jacobus asked of Stanley Fish's "anec-joke." The woman in Jane...

...personalism” (Miller 1991, 25) we can but try to write a social performance where the “personal is at odds with the hierarchies of the positional—working...relay between positions to create critical fluency” (Miller 1991, 25). One of the crucial terms in the critical vocabulary of writers/critics seeking to...

...personalism” (Miller 1991, 25) we can but try to write a social performance where the “personal is at odds with the hierarchies of the positional—working...relay between positions to create critical fluency” (Miller 1991, 25). One of the crucial terms in the critical vocabulary of writers/critics seeking to...

...(and themselves) by their first names in print.” Still, when it works, what Miller values is that “the personal in these texts is at odds with the...relay between positions to create critical fluency.” 4 ° For me, it is that “betweenness” that letters underscore. Letters in critical writing enact...

...into academic discourse as "personal criticism," a form of theory that at its best demonstrates that "the personal in these texts is at odds with the hierarchies...new repertory for an enlivening cultural criticism" (25). My hope is that this project will continue the feminist tradition of scholarship that is personal...

...a recognizably private narrative. As Paul Valery has observed, "at its best... the personal in ... texts is at odds with the hierarchies of the positional—working...relay between positions to create critical fluency." 25 In the between suggested by Valery's argument, any combination of the two styles of generic text—the...