The values of literary studies : critical institutions, scholarly agendas /
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 u...
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Cambridge ; New York :
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2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Rónán McDonald
- 1. The value of criticism and the project of modernism / Anthony J. 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 Rabaté
- 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.