Title: Two texts and I : disciplines of knowledge and the literary subject /
Authors: Gupta, Suman, 1966-
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Associated University Presses,
Year: 1999
Subjects: English literature Study and teaching; English literature History and criticism Theory, etc.; Interdisciplinary approach in education.
Contents: The Argument -- Pt. I. Disciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity in Literary Studies -- Introduction -- Cautious Texts -- The First Cautious Text: The Philosophical Subject -- The Second Cautious Text: Inside and Outside Literature -- The Third Cautious Text: On Not Being a Scientist -- The Bold Text -- Pt. II. The Bold Text -- The Disciplinary Status of Literary Studies and English Literary Studies -- Clarification -- Literary Studies and Other Disciplines of Knowledge -- The Importance of Comprehending and Maintaining Distinctions -- Crisis in the Subdiscipline of English Literature and in the Academic Discipline of English Literature -- Canonicity in Accepted Canons and Self-Evident Canons, Particularly the Latter -- More About the Accepted Canon -- Reading-Writing the Institutional Space of the Academic Discipline of English Literature -- Reading-Writing and Interrogating the Accepted Canon of the Academic Discipline of English Literature -- To Conclude this Section Let's Summarize the Arguments Therein (the Bold Text at its Most Assertive) ... -- Pt. III. The Cautious Text -- The Literary Subject and "Non-Literary" Texts -- Example 1: Literary Engagements With Wittgenstein -- Example 2: Literary Linguistics and Non-Mathematical Expositions of Relativity -- Discussion 1: T. S. Eliot's Anti-Semitism -- Discussion 2: Literature in Indian-English(es).