Mayhewianism #3

"I came of age intellectually during the apogee of Derrida in the American academy, so I know this theory better than you. If you try this argument with me I will crush you."

(A "mayhewianism" is an expression that is characteristic of Jonathan Mayhew's exemplary scholarly persona. Ideally, it is something actually written by Prof. Mayhew.)

Mayhewianism #4

"...I began to feel brutishly stupid. It was true that I was studying Keats and Wordsworth and watching bad Italian mafia movies from the 70s, but I was not writing, not producing my own ideas."

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Note: This one is an example of "Mayhewian disjunction": Mayhew's "but", if you will.

Mayhewianism #2

"To really love literature is to love how it rewrites your subjectivity, how it kicks your ass with its transformative power." (Jonathan Mayhew)

I feel the same way about love in general. "Strike, witless bitch," said Irving Layton. "Blind me!"

Mayhewianism #6

"I do not play in bands."

Mayhewianism #5

"What's the point of being Z[ukofsky] if you are going to write like that?"

Mayhewianism?

"The guy lives in a bizarro universe where Edward Said is not sufficiently sympathetic to the Palestinian cause."