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To Laputa and back: a missing chapter of Gulliver's Travels To the memory of Edward Said, citizen‐scholar
Author(s) -
Suvin Darko
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
critical quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1467-8705
pISSN - 0011-1562
DOI - 10.1111/j.0011-1562.2005.00621.x
Subject(s) - plea , presupposition , de facto , field (mathematics) , sociology , epistemology , law , political science , philosophy , mathematics , pure mathematics
The article is divided into three parts. Part 1, 'Entering Laputa in the winter of our discontent', deals with general presuppositions, including those on intellectuals in Post‐Fordism and as members of de facto English departments. Part 2, 'Visiting the word‐machine', deals with some aporias of literary and English studies. Part 3, 'How to leave Laputa', asks what might be some components of our agenda today. It includes a plea for English studies as an independent, international field of inquiry and teaching, and discusses some possible orientations for us.