Literary Studies Deconstructed A Polemic /

• Main Author: Butler, Catherine (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Literature-Philosophy.; Art education.; Literary Theory.; Creativity and Arts Education.

Literary Studies Deconstructed critiques the state of Literary Studies in the modern university and argues for its comprehensive reconstruction. It argues that Literary Studies as currently practised avoids engaging with much of literary experience and prioritises instead the needs of critics as a p...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: The LITMUS Papers
• 2. Not I? Critics versus Readers
• 3. The Uses of Embarrassment: Exploring the Limits of Critical Reading
• 4. Attack of the Zombie Authors: Critics versus Writers
• 5. All Our Own Work: Originality and Creative Writing
• 6. Inconclusion.