Title: Token professionals and master critics
First published: 1994
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.
Subjects: Criticism, Canon (Literature), Kritik, Literaturwissenschaft, Hochschule, Autoritat, Literaturkritik
LC classification: PN81 .S565 1994