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Literary Studies Deconstructed
A Polemic
ISBN/EAN: 9783319904740
Umbreit-Nr.: 4028852
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: ix, 149 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 04.06.2018
Auflage: 1/2018
- Zusatztext
- 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 professional community: to teach and assess students, to demonstrate the creation of knowledge, and to meet the demands of governments, funders and other bodies. The result is that many areas centrally important to lay readers are largely omitted from critical discussion. Moreover, critical writing and its conventions are framed so as to mask and repress the subject's contradictions. This lively and provocative book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students with an interest in the critical profession or literary theory, as well as to Literary Studies academics.
- Kurztext
- Delineates some problematic aspects of the culture of literary studiesHighlights some potential areas of study seen as neglected and to argue for their importanceSuggests ways in which literary studies might be expanded and reshaped, its priorities and assumptions reconsidered
- Autorenportrait
- Catherine Butler is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University, where she publishes primarily on children's literature. As well as writing and editing academic books, she has authored six novels for children and teenagers, and is editor of the journal, Children's Literature in Education.