The values of literary studies
Subtitle: critical institutions, scholarly agendas
By: edited by Rónán McDonald, University of New South Wales
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781107124165
Subjects: Criticism; Literature; Theory; Study and teaching (Higher); Philosophy; History and criticism
Description: "What is valuable about literary studies? What is its point and purpose? In The Values of Literary Studies: Critical Institutions, Scholarly Agendas, leading scholars in the field illuminate both the purpose and priorities of literary criticism. At a time when the humanities are increasingly called upon to justify themselves, this book seeks to clarify their myriad values and ideologies. Engaging the idea of literary value while at the same time remaining attuned to aesthetic, ethical, political and psychological principles, this book serves to underscore the enduring significance of literary studies in an academic climate that is ostensibly concerned with expediency and quantification. As a sophisticated examination of literary theory and criticism, The Values of Literary Studies: Critical Institutions, Scholarly Agendas provides a comprehensive and hopeful view of where the discipline is now and what avenues it is likely to take from here"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. The value of criticism and the project of modernism / Anthony Cascardi; 2. Caprice: individual subjectivity in literary criticism / Helen Small; 3. The phenomenology of literary valuation / Charles Altieri; 4. Literature is history: aesthetic time and the ethics of literary will / Alan Singer; 5. Dead on arrival: time and the value of old books / Kathleen McLuskie; 6. The price of value  / Christopher Nealon; 7. To shelter the nothing that happens / Julian Murphet; 8. When literary criticism mattered / Simon During; 9. Literature among the objects of modernist criticism: value, medium, genre / James Chandler; 10. 'Value!': Psychoanalysis, value, literature / Jean-Michel Rabate; 11. Afterlives of comparison: literature, equivalence, value / Natalie Melas; 12. Feminism, gender and the literary commons  / Robin Truth Goodman; 13. The value of world-making in global literacy studies / Debjani Ganguly; 14. Multiple versions of fictional minds: manuscript research, digital editing and enactive cognition in literary studies / Dirk van Hulle; 15. After suspicion: surface, method, value  / Rónán McDonald; 16. Literary experience and the value of criticism / Derek Attridge.