| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 296 pages) |
| Contents |
The Canon and the Literary Profession -- Society and the Profession, 1958-83 -- Race and Gender in the Shaping of the American Literary Canon: A Case Study from the Twenties -- The Literatures of America -- A Comparative Discipline -- Reconstructing American Literature -- Curricular Issues -- Teaching Nineteenth-Century American Woman Writers -- The Two Criticisms -- or, Structure, Lingo, and Power in the Discourse of Academic Humanists -- Canon Theory and Emergent Practice -- The University and The Republic -- Retrenchment -- What the Managers Are Doing -- A Scandalous Misuse of Faculty -- Adjuncts -- Beyond Consciousness Raising -- Changing Institutions -- University Reform -- Threat or Opportunity -- Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth -- Whose Culture? Whose Literacy? -- The Book of Bloom and the Discourse of Difference |
| Summary |
Lauter is one of the leading figures in the project known as Reconstructing American Literature. The essays in this book represent his effort to establish a theory of 'Canonical Criticism'. They reflect the eloquence and passion of a serious commitment to understanding and influencing the relationship between social justice, academic freedom, and literary history |
| Analysis |
Higher education institutions Curriculum Literature |
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United States |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
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Criticism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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English philology -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States
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Educational innovations.
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Canon (Literature)
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Canon (Literature)
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Criticism
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Educational innovations
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English philology -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Literatuuronderwijs.
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Amerikaans.
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Canon.
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1429400056 |
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9781429400053 |
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9780195068320 |
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0195068327 |
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9780195055931 |
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0195055934 |
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1280525614 |
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9781280525612 |
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