A sociological history of literary study-both as a discipline and
as a profession. As the humanities in higher education struggle
with a labor crisis and with declining enrollments, the travails of
literary study are especially profound. No scholar has analyzed the
discipline's contradictions as authoritatively as John Guillory. In
this much-anticipated new book, Guillory shows how the study of
literature has been organized, both historically and in the modern
era, both before and after its professionalization. The traces of
this volatile history, he reveals, have solidified into permanent
features of the university. Literary study continues to be troubled
by the relation between discipline and profession, both in its
ambivalence about the literary object and in its anxious embrace of
a professionalism that betrays the discipline's relation to its
amateur precursor: criticism. In a series of timely essays,
Professing Criticism offers an incisive explanation for the
perennial churn in literary study, the constant revolutionizing of
its methods and objects, and the permanent crisis of its
professional identification. It closes with a robust outline of
five key rationales for literary study, offering a credible account
of the aims of the discipline and a reminder to the professoriate
of what they already do, and often do well.
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