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Literary Criticism: An Autopsy (Critical Authors and Issues)
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Literary Criticism: An Autopsy (Critical Authors and Issues) Paperback - 1997

by Mark Bauerlein

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  • Title Literary Criticism: An Autopsy (Critical Authors and Issues)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
  • Date 1997-08-01
  • Features Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # BOS-T-10g-01253
  • ISBN 9780812216257 / 0812216253
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.5 in (21.34 x 13.97 x 1.27 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97-14199
  • Dewey Decimal Code 801.95

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From the rear cover

As the study of literature has extended to cultural contexts, critics have developed a language all their own. Yet, argues Mark Bauerlein, scholars of literature today are so unskilled in pertinent sociohistorical methods that they compensate by adopting cliches and catchphrases that serve as substitutes for information and logic. Thus by labeling a set of ideas an "ideology" they avoid specifying those ideas, or by saying that someone "essentializes" a concept they convey the air of decisive refutation. As long as a paper is generously sprinkled with the right words, clarification is deemed superfluous. Bauerlein contends that such usages only serve to signal political commitments, prove membership in subgroups, or appeal to editors and tenure committees, and that current textual practices are inadequate to the study of culture and politics they presume to undertake. His book discusses 23 commonly encountered terms - from "deconstruction" and "gender" to "problematize" and "rethink" - and offers a diagnosis of contemporary criticism through their analysis. A self-styled "handbook of counterdisciplinary usage", Literary Criticism: An Autopsy shows how the use of illogical, unsound, or inconsistent terms has brought about a breakdown in disciplinary focus. It is an insightful and entertaining work that challenges scholars to reconsider their choice of words - and to eliminate many from critical inquiry altogether.

About the author

Mark Bauerlein is Professor of English at Emory University. He is editor of The Turning World: American Literary Modernism and Continental Theory, by Joseph Riddel, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press, and author of Whitman and the American Idiom.

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