Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study by Guillory, John
Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study by Guillory, John

Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study

A sociological history of literary study--both as a discipline and as a profession. As the humanities in...
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Author: John Guillory
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Language: English
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Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study by Guillory, John

Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study

$125.11
Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study by Guillory, John

Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study

$125.11
Author: John Guillory
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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.

Author: John Guillory
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 12/30/2022
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.60h x 6.20w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780226821306
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