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Canons and contexts /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lauter, Paul (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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