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1. All literary research is...2. Counterarguments3. The Tricky Anteriority of Literature4. What is the Literary Product?5. Are These Serious Arguments?6. Research for the Public Good7. Joycean Lessons: Applied and Basic Research8. Missteps9. A Way of Arguing10. Changes and Futures11. Disinterestedness and Academic Freedom12. In Bad Faith13. Literature Can Criticise Research14. What Literary Researchers Actually Do: Clarifying Terms15. Disciplining Research16. Two Notes: Public Funding and the Entrepreneur17. A Certain Kind of Pressure18. Away From the Monopolistic University19. The Corporate Research that Universities Commission20. Corporate Research and Academic Research21. Privatisation Notes22. Which History?23. Neoliberal Temporality24. The Entrepreneurial Literary Researcher25. Literary Close Reading26. Profitable Close Reading27. Blue-Skies Research28. Purpose in Literary Interpretation29. Professional Interpretation30. Interpretation and Object31. Profitable Literary Interpretation32. Academic Responsibility and Profitable Convergence33. Positive and Negative Notes34. Skills and Knowledge35. Targeted Cynicism and Parasitic Authority36. Literary and Commercial Value37. Measuring Values in the Cultural Industries38. Doubts39. Modelling as Literary Research40. On Alexander's Projects41. Disqualifications and Qualifications42. The Shrinking Teacher and Pedagogical AIIntroduction An entrepreneurial spirit has gripped academia. The debate presented in this book is about what that means and portends for researchers, espe-cially those engaged in literary studies. Organisations or individuals are considered to be entrepreneurial when they single-mindedly pursue profits from whatever productive activ-ity they are concerned with. That is the sense in which 'entrepreneurial' is used in the following debate. This definition overlooks some of the con-ventional nuances of the term, some of its heroic flavour and upbeat charge, the social contribution and creative edge it c