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Professional Correctness: Literary Studies and Political Change
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Professional Correctness: Literary Studies and Political Change
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by Stanley Fish
Sales Rank : 1329956
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Paperback: 164 pages
Publisher: Harvard University Press; New Ed edition April 1, 1999
Language: English
ISBN-10: 067471220X
ISBN-13: 978-0674712201
Product Dimensions:
8.2 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 6.7 ounces
From Library Journal
Literature should be read as literature by literary scholars, contends the controversial academic Fish (There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, LJ 10/1/93). Looking back to his earlier work in reader response theory, Fish argues that the assumptions a reader brings to a text defines the work and how it is read. That being the case, critics should not abdicate the assumptions that distinguish them as critics, not as historians or politicians. While supporting a diversity of texts and approaches, Fish challenges the projects of various political and cultural critics, as well as New Historicists, for advancing the wrong questions and conceiving the wrong object, thereby closing off the profession. The goal of literary studies is literature, not a larger political agenda. Fish offers a lucid and stimulating contribution to the debate over literary studies from the liberal side of the spectrum. For academic collections.?T.L. Cooksey, Armstrong State Coll., Savannah, Ga.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Product Review
Fish has written a very stylish, muscular little book arguing that the enemies of literary study are the new Historicism and cultural studies, and that more professionalism just might save the sinking ship.
--Rick Perlstein (The Nation )
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