Professing Criticism

Author : John Guillory
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780226821306

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"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 Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation remains a classic and whose subsequent essays on the profession of literary study have been widely cited. In this much-anticipated new book, Guillory shows how literary study has been organized, both historically and in the modern era, both before and after its professionalization. The traces of this volatile history, he shows, have solidified into permanent features of the university. Yet the discipline 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 In a series of essays, several previously unpublished, Guillory unpacks what it means to "profess criticism." His book gives a timely and 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 : Susan B. Rosenbaum
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 0813926106

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Professing Sincerity Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Sincerity--the claim that the voice, figure, and experience of a first-person speaker is that of the author--has dominated both the reading and the writing of Anglo-American poetry since the romantic era. Most critical studies have upheld an opposition between sincerity and the literary marketplace, contributing to the widespread understanding of the lyric poem as a moral refuge from the taint of commercial culture. Guided by the question of why we expect poetry to be sincere, Susan Rosenbaum reveals in Professing Sincerity: Modern Lyric Poetry, Commercial Culture, and the Crisis in Reading that, in fact, sincerity in the modern lyric was in many ways a product of commercial culture. As she demonstrates, poets who made a living from their writing both sold the moral promise that their lyrics were sincere and commented on this conflict in their work. Juxtaposing the poetry of Wordsworth and Frank O'Hara, Charlotte Smith and Sylvia Plath, and Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Elizabeth Bishop, Rosenbaum shows how on the one hand, through textual claims to sincerity poets addressed moral anxieties about the authenticity, autonomy, and transparency of literature written in and for a market. On the other hand, by performing their "private" lives and feelings in public, she argues, poets marketed the self, cultivated celebrity, and advanced professional careers. Not only a moral practice, professing sincerity was also good business. The author focuses on the history of this conflict in both British romantic and American post-1945 poetry. Professing Sincerity will appeal to students and scholars of Anglo-American lyric poetry, of the history of authorship, and of gender studies and commercial culture.

Author : John Guillory
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226821313

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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.

Author : Gerald Graff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 0226305252

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Professing Literature Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Widely considered the standard history of the profession of literary studies, Professing Literature unearths the long-forgotten ideas and debates that created the literature department as we know it today. In a readable and often-amusing narrative, Gerald Graff shows that the heated conflicts of our recent culture wars echo—and often recycle—controversies over how literature should be taught that began more than a century ago. Updated with a new preface by the author that addresses many of the provocative arguments raised by its initial publication, Professing Literature remains an essential history of literary pedagogy and a critical classic. “Graff’s history. . . is a pathbreaking investigation showing how our institutions shape literary thought and proposing how they might be changed.”— The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism

Author : Paul V. Murphy
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 080784960X

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The Rebuke of History Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

In 1930, a group of southern intellectuals led by John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Donald Davidson, and Robert Penn Warren published I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition. A stark attack on industrial capitalism and a defiant celeb

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Theology
ISBN : UCAL:B3078694

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The Homiletic Review Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Author : Jonathan Crewe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317675372

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Hidden Designs (Routledge Revivals) Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This 1986 study offers a challenging contribution to the on-going critical debate surrounding the English literary Renaissance. Although informed by the ‘new historicism’ and post-structuralism, Hidden Designs makes a plea for criticism to be practiced in its own name rather than in the name of theory, and opposes the hyper-professionalisation of literary studies in favour of the broader communal functions of criticism. Major Renaissance authors and their recent critics are placed under ‘suspicion’ as Crewe explores the elements of ‘criminality’ inherent in the powerful interests –personal, institutional, political and cultural – served by the literary enterprise, or channelled through it. Revisionary readings of Sidney, Spenser, Puttenham and Shakespeare are linked by a continuing commentary on the history and theoretical claims of Renaissance criticism.

Author : Herbert George Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Social problems
ISBN : CORNELL:31924030269645

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Mankind in the Making Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1084 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCR:31210021151608

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The Fortnightly Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IOWA:31858029143314

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The Fortnightly Review Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Author : H.G. Wells
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732649655

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Mankind in the Making Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Reproduction of the original: Mankind in the Making by H.G. Wells

Author : Thomas Bender,Carl E. Schorske
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780691227832

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American Academic Culture in Transformation Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

In the half century since World War II, American academic culture has changed profoundly. Until now, those changes have not been charted, nor have their implications for current discussions of the academy been appraised. In this book, however, eminent academic figures who have helped to produce many of the changes of the last fifty years explore how four disciplines in the social sciences and humanities--political science, economics, philosophy, and literary studies--have been transformed. Edited by the distinguished historians Thomas Bender and Carl Schorske, the book places academic developments in their intellectual and socio-political contexts. Scholarly innovators of different generations offer insiders' views of the course of change in their own fields, revealing the internal dynamics of disciplinary change. Historians examine the external context for these changes--including the Cold War, Vietnam, feminism, civil rights, and multiculturalism. They also compare the very different paths the disciplines have followed within the academy and the consequent alterations in their relations to the larger public. Initiated by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the study was first published in Daedalus in its 1997 winter issue. The contributors are M. H. Abrams, William Barber, Thomas Bender, Catherine Gallagher, Charles Lindblom, Robert Solow, David Kreps, Hilary Putnam, José David Saldívar, Alexander Nehamas, Rogers Smith, Carl Schorske, Ira Katznelson, and David Hollinger.

Author : Rachel Sagner Buurma,Laura Heffernan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : American literature
ISBN : 022673594X

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The Teaching Archive Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

The Teaching Archive shows us a series of major literary thinkers in a place we seldom remember them inhabiting: the classroom. In Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan's literary history, we watch T. S. Eliot and his working-class students revise their modern literature syllabus at the University of London's extension school during World War I. We read about how Caroline Spurgeon, one of the first female professors in the United Kingdom, invited her first-year women's college students to compile their own reading indexes in 1913. We see how J. Saunders Redding taught African American memoirs and letters to his American literature students at Hampton Institute in 1940. I. A. Richards, Cleanth Brooks, and Edmund Wilson figure prominently in Buurma and Heffernan's study, as do poet-critics Josephine Miles and Simon J. Ortiz. Throughout, the authors draw on what they call "the teaching archive"--the syllabi, course descriptions, lecture notes, and class assignments--to rewrite a history of literary study grounded in actual practice. ​ With this innovative study, Buurma and Heffernan give us an urgent literary history for the present moment. As English departments look to an uncertain future, they also look to their past. In The Teaching Archive, they will find a revelatory history of the profession.

Author : Gerald Graff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Education
ISBN : 0226306046

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Professing Literature Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Author : John Guillory
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226310015

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Cultural Capital Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

John Guillory challenges the most fundamental premises of the canon debate by resituating the problem of canon formation in an entirely new theoretical framework. The result is a book that promises to recast not only the debate about the literary curriculum but also the controversy over "multiculturalism" and the current "crisis of the humanities." Employing concepts drawn from Pierre Bourdieu's sociology, Guillory argues that canon formation must be understood less as a question of the representation of social groups than as a question of the distribution of "cultural capital" in the schools, which regulate access to literacy, to the practices of reading and writing.