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Professional Correctness: Literary Studies and Political Change

By Stanley Fish

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
1999
ISBN
067471220X, 9780674712201
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8068060 bytes)
Pages
160\164
Time added
2022-10-02 15:22:00

Description

The discipline of literary criticism is strictly defined, and the most pressing issues of our time―racism, violence against women and homosexuals, cultural imperialism, and the like―are located outside its domain. In Professional Correctness, Stanley Fish raises a provocative challenge to those who try to turn literary studies into an instrument of political change, arguing that when literary critics try to influence society at large by addressing social and political issues, they cease to be literary critics at all. Anyone interested in the debate over the place of cultural studies in the field of literary criticism, or the more general question of whether academics can become the "public intellectuals" many aspire to be, needs to read Fish's powerful and unconventional argument for restoring discipline to the academy.

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