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Professing Criticism
- Essays on the Organization of Literary Study
Engelsk Hardback
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Professing Criticism
- Essays on the Organization of Literary Study
Engelsk Hardback

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A sociological history of literary study—both as a discipline and as a profession.   As the humanities in higher education struggle with a labor crisis and with declining enrollments, the travails of literary study are especially profound. No scholar has analyzed the discipline’s contradictions as authoritatively as John Guillory. In this much-anticipated new book, Guillory shows how the study of literature has been organized, both historically and in the modern era, both before and after its professionalization. The traces of this volatile history, he reveals, have solidified into permanent features of the university. Literary study continues to be troubled by the relation between discipline and profession, both in its ambivalence about the literary object and in its anxious embrace of a professionalism that betrays the discipline’s relation to its amateur precursor: criticism.  In a series of timely essays, Professing Criticism offers an incisive explanation for the perennial churn in literary study, the constant revolutionizing of its methods and objects, and the permanent crisis of its professional identification. It closes with a robust outline of five key rationales for literary study, offering a credible account of the aims of the discipline and a reminder to the professoriate of what they already do, and often do well.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
456
ISBN-13:
9780226821290
Indbinding:
Hardback
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ISBN-10:
0226821293
Udg. Dato:
30 dec 2022
Længde:
33mm
Bredde:
237mm
Højde:
161mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
30 dec 2022
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