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Professional Correctness: Literary Studies and Political Change (Clarendon Lectures in English) - Hardcover

Fish, Stanley Eugene

 
9780198123736: Professional Correctness: Literary Studies and Political Change (Clarendon Lectures in English)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0198123736 ISBN 13: 9780198123736
Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1995

Synopsis

This is an analysis of the debate in literary and cultural studies between those who want interpretive work to influence political issues and those who fear that this would destroy the essence of literary criticism. It argues that movements such as the new historicism, gender studies or cultural studies can change the objects of their attention, change their vocabularies, change the scope of their claims and change their very names, however nothing they do will bring them into closer contact with the larger structures they would transform.

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About the Author


About the Author:
Stanley Fish is Professor of English, Professor of Law, and Associate Vice-Provost at Duke University, and is Executive Director of the Duke University Press. His many books include the classic Surprised by Sin and There's No Such Thing as Free Speech...And It's a Good Thing, Too.

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Publisher
Clarendon Press
Publication date
1995
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0198123736
ISBN 13 
9780198123736
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
159