Professing criticism : essays on the organization of literary study /

"As the humanities in higher education struggle with a jobs crisis and declining enrollments, the travails of "English" have been especially acute and long-standing. No scholar has analyzed the discipline's contradictions as authoritatively as John Guillory, whose 1993 book Cultu...

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Guillory, John (συγγραφέας)
Μορφή: Βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2022.
Θέματα:
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Part One: The Formation and Deformation of Literary Study
  • Institution of Professions
  • Professing Criticism
  • Critique of Critical Criticism
  • Part Two: Organizing Literature: Foundations, Antecedents, Consequences
  • Monuments and Documents: On the Object of Study in the Humanities
  • The Postrhetorical Condition
  • Two Failed Disciplines: Belles Lettres and Philology
  • The Location of Literature
  • The Contradictions of Global English
  • Part Three: Professionalization and Its Discontents
  • 9 On the Permanent Crisis of Graduate Education
  • Evaluating Scholarship in the Humanities
  • Composition and the Demand for Writing
  • The Question of Lay Reading
  • Conclusion: Ratio Studiorum.