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Literary Studies Deconstructed
eBook - A Polemic
ISBN/EAN: 9783319904757
Umbreit-Nr.: 5185609
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 0 S., 1.43 MB
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Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 22.05.2018
Auflage: 1/2018
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- Zusatztext
- <div><i>Literary Studies Deconstructed</i> 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 subjects contradictions.</div><div> 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.</div>
- Kurztext
- 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.
- Autorenportrait
- <p>Catherine Butler is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University, where she publishes primarily on childrens literature. As well as writing and editing academic books, she has authored six novels for children and teenagers, and is editor of the journal,<i>Childrens Literature in Education</i>.</p>