April 13, 2001
The Festschrift Is Dead. Long Live the Festschrift!
Presses hate them because of small sales and mixed quality -- but publish them anyway
Just as industry has its gold watch, academe had, of yore, its own characteristic expression of esteem for an undeniably outstanding, and aging, colleague. Today, that long-honored token of academic affection seems little but a fricative mouthful of outmodedness:
Festschrift.
German for "festival writing," the word denotes a volume of learned articles inspired
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