The Institution of Literature

The Institution of Literature
Title The Institution of Literature PDF eBook
Author Jeffrey Williams
Publisher SUNY Press
Pages 308
Release 2002-01-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780791452103

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Leading voices in literary and cultural studies examine the study of literature at the college level, including the fate of theory, the rise of cultural studies, the academic “star” system, and the difficult job market.

British Literature and the Life of Institutions

British Literature and the Life of Institutions
Title British Literature and the Life of Institutions PDF eBook
Author Benjamin Kohlmann
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 281
Release 2021-11-25
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0192573187

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British Literature and the Life of Institutions charts a literary prehistory of the welfare state in Britain around 1900, but it also marks a major intervention in current theoretical debates about critique and the dialectical imagination. By placing literary studies in dialogue with political theory, philosophy, and the history of ideas, the book reclaims a substantive reformist language that we have ignored to our own loss. This reformist idiom made it possible to imagine the state as a speculative and aspirational idea—as a fully realized form of life rather than as an uninspiring ensemble of administrative procedures and bureaucratic processes. This volume traces the resonances of this idiom from the Victorian period to modernism, ranging from Mary Augusta Ward, George Gissing, and H. G. Wells, to Edward Carpenter, E. M. Forster, and Virginia Woolf. Compared to this reformist language, the economism that dominates current debates about the welfare state signals an impoverishment that is at once intellectual, cultural, and political. Critiquing the shortcomings of the welfare state comes naturally to us, but we often struggle to offer up convincing defences of its principles and aims. This book intervenes in these debates by urging a richer understanding of critique: if we want to defend the state, Kohlmann argues, we need to learn to think about it again.

The Institution of English Literature

The Institution of English Literature
Title The Institution of English Literature PDF eBook
Author Barbara Schaff
Publisher V&R Unipress
Pages 335
Release 2016-11-07
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 3847006290

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The contributions investigate the ways in which numerous institutions of English literature shape the literary field. While they cover an extensive historical field, ranging from the Early Modern period to the 18th century to the contemporary, they focus not only on literary texts, but also on extra-literary ones, including literary prizes, literary histories and anthologies, and highlight the various ways in which these negotiate the processes that constitute the literary field. All contributions assert that there is no such thing as literature outside of institutions. Great emphasis is therefore put on different acts of mediation.

Linguistics and English Literature

Linguistics and English Literature
Title Linguistics and English Literature PDF eBook
Author H. D. Adamson
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 367
Release 2019-04-04
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1107045401

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This undergraduate textbook introduces English literature students to the application of linguistics to literary analysis.

English Literature in Context

English Literature in Context
Title English Literature in Context PDF eBook
Author Paul Poplawski
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 757
Release 2017-05-18
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1107141672

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From Anglo-Saxon runes to postcolonial rap, this undergraduate textbook covers the social and historical contexts of the whole of the English literature.

Institutionalizing English Literature

Institutionalizing English Literature
Title Institutionalizing English Literature PDF eBook
Author Franklin E. Court
Publisher Stanford University Press
Pages 236
Release 1992
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780804720434

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"This book has a dual purpose. First, it presents a detailed historical record of how the academic discipline of English literary study began in British universities. It traces the process of academic legitimation and autonomy from Adam Smith, who first offered formal university lectures on English literature, between 1748 and 1751, to the formation of the Oxford English School by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1904." "Much of this material is drawn directly from the lives and careers of the prominent professors who were the avatars of the new discipline. The author examines pedagogical practices, programmatic decisions, and shifting political currents of academic fashion. The primary focus is on two institutions, the University of Edinburgh and University College, London. Not only were they in the forefront in the initial disciplinary formation of English literary study, they were both especially sensitive registers of continually changing ideological imperatives and scholarly trends." "The second purpose of the book is to demonstrate, to those who consider the politicization of literary study a contemporary plague, that political ideologies and ethnocentric parochialism have consistently determined the historical development of the discipline, and that the institutional history of English literary study is largely a history of ideological and racial controversy. Though basically historical in its methodology, the book extends into areas of general literary criticism and cultural theory, examining how an interdisciplinary network of relations created the political climates and shaped the scholarly trends that determined the discipline's history." "The record of the genesis of English literary study is in part a record of major institutional commitments, of the publication of definitive critical works, of the shaping of a teachable canon of literary works, and of the vibrant and colorful personalities who left their marks on generations of students. But as this book shows, the full record also includes other traces of the past: salary disputes, professional jealousies and conflicts, conflicting pedagogical visions, British racial distinctions, economic constraints, the marketing of books, committee bureaucracies, degree requirements, political demagoguery, social and religious pressures, and many others."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Institution of Criticism

The Institution of Criticism
Title The Institution of Criticism PDF eBook
Author Peter Uwe Hohendahl
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 383
Release 2016-11-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1501705423

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German radicals of the 1960s announced the death of literature. For them, literature both past and present, as well as conventional discussions of literary issues, had lost its meaning. In The Institution of Criticism, Peter Uwe Hohendahl explores the implications of this crisis from a Marxist perspective and attempts to define the tasks and responsibilities of criticism in advanced capitalist societies. Hohendahl takes a close look at the social history of literary criticism in Germany since the eighteenth century. Drawing on the tradition of the Frankfurt School and on Jürgen Habermas's concept of the public sphere, Hohendahl sheds light on some of the important political and social forces that shape literature and culture. The Institution of Criticism is made up of seven essays originally published in German and a long theoretical introduction written by the author with English-language readers in mind. This book conveys the rich possibilities of the German perspective for those who employ American and French critical techniques and for students of contemporary critical theory.