(PDF Download) Professing Criticism: Essays on the Organization of Literary Study By John Guillory
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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
