Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study Guillory John
Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study Guillory John A sociological history of literary study--both as a discipline and as a profession.As the humanities in higher…
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Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study Guillory John
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. 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. No scholar has analyzed the discipline's contradictions as authoritatively as John Guillory.
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: The traces of this volatile history, he reveals, have solidified into permanent features of the university.