Token professionals and master critics
Subtitle: a critique of orthodoxy in literary studies
By: James J. Sosnoski.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Canon (Literature); Criticism.
Description: This book addresses literary critics in mainstream institutions who, though they vastly outnumber their colleagues in more prestigious institutions, have little voice in the profession. It examines the structures through which the institution of literary critical pressures its members to accept orthodoxy/heterodoxy as categories to describe their work, which in turn provokes theory wars. This opposition produces a method/application dichotomy that renders members' pursuits scientistic.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-262) and indexes.