May 11, 2001

Heathcliff and Cathy, the Dysfunctional Couple

By TRYSH TRAVIS

Where does your next book come from? You've been going along with a set of ideas about your chosen field, ideas that you learned in graduate school, ones that pretty much conform to your understanding and experience of your discipline. You've written papers and articles in accordance with those ideas, and structured your classes to reflect them. You are a well-trained, high-functioning academic.

Then one day, your students say something so off-the-wall that your jaw just drops. When

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