Sarah's Books - Used & Rare

...this is not what I mean: I picked up this book at the sale on Saturday because it is the kind of book that will sell quickly on Amazon (I sell some books online from time to time, particularly books that could be considered textbook-y). So this particular, oh, let's call it, Unnamed Academic Work, contains the kind of university-ese, academic-speak jargon that is my least favorite style of writing: indecipherable, incomprehensible, exclusionary, and irritating (how's that for an opinion). Here is a random sample from said Unnamed Academic Work:

"Participation springs from this disruptive potential, an indeterminacy of representation internal to the performance. If writing and documentation cannot recuperate the disruptive effects of work of participation found in performance minimally, they can recognize the disruptive effects of the work of participation lost to representation.... What a fuller elaboration of these narratives would want to show was that the performance event could only be grasped through an exchange consisting of the mutual interruption and displacement of narratives.... This perspective simulates a relation of perfomance and audience where performance pertains to the execution of an idea implicit in the notion of 'agency' and audience suggests a mobilized critical presence intended by radical notions of 'history.' This distinction points to a conception of history where historical project as the formation of an identity and historical possibility as the capacity for continued mobilization are joined..." blah blah blah-de-blah blah.

Lordy lord. All my apologies and sympathies go to the undoubtedly embattled and beleaguered PhD student who had to write this article in order to publish or perish. This is NOT the scholarly stuff which I am enamoured of. I mean, instead, a sweetly weighty hardcover two-volume history of nineteenth-century France, published by Oxford University Press. With fold-out maps. And crisp dust jackets. Mmm, mm, that's what I'm talkin' bout.