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CALL FOR ENTRIES.  Philosophy and Literature announces the third Bad 
Writing Contest.  Please cross-post the following announcement on related 
lists for humanities, culture theory, philosophy, social sciences, 
criticism, editing, etc. 
 
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 The Philosophy and Literature Bad Writing Contest 
 
 The challenge of the Bad Writing Contest is to come up with the ugliest, 
most stylistically awful single sentence from a published scholarly book 
or article.  Ordinary journalism, fiction, etc. not allowed, nor is 
translation from other languages into English. Entries must be non-ironic, 
from actual serious academic journals or books--parodies cannot be 
admitted in a field where unintentional self-parody is so rampant. 
Winning entries will be checked by our researchers before prizes are 
awarded. 
 
 Judging will be by editorial staff of Philosophy and Literature.  Finder 
of the winning sentence will have first choice from among the following 
titles, second prize will be a choice of the remaining books, and so on. 
The seven prize books are: Rewriting the Soul, by Ian Hacking (Princeton), 
The Magician's Doubts: Nabokov and the Risks of Fiction, by Michael Wood 
(Princeton), Dilemmas of Enlightenment, by Oscar Kenshur (California); 
Killing Time, by Paul Feyerabend (Chicago); Anti-Mimesis from Plato to 
Hitchcock, by Tom Cohen (Cambridge); Compulsive Beauty, by Hal Foster 
(MIT); Georges Bataille, by Michael Richardson (Routledge).  If necessary, 
there will be a eight prize (a copy of the journal Social Text) and ninth 
prize (two copies of Social Text). 
 
 We've fine prizes for this third contest, so join the fun! Please use the 
subject heading "Bad writing entry" and copy the posting directly to Denis 
Dutton, editor of Philosophy and Literature, so we can keep track of the 
entries: 
 
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 The contest deadline: 31 January 1997 
 
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