Professing Criticism

Professing Criticism
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 424
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ISBN-10 : 9780226821313
ISBN-13 : 0226821315
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Book Synopsis Professing Criticism by : John Guillory

Download or read book Professing Criticism written by John Guillory and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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