Literary Studies Deconstructed critiques the state of Literary
Studies in the modern university and argues for its comprehensive
reconstruction. It argues that Literary Studies as currently
practised avoids engaging with much of literary experience and
prioritises instead the needs of critics as a professional
community: to teach and assess students, to demonstrate the
creation of knowledge, and to meet the demands of governments,
funders and other bodies. The result is that many areas centrally
important to lay readers are largely omitted from critical
discussion. Moreover, critical writing and its conventions are
framed so as to mask and repress the subject's contradictions. This
lively and provocative book will be of interest to undergraduate
and postgraduate students with an interest in the critical
profession or literary theory, as well as to Literary Studies
academics.
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