Literary Criticism: An Autopsy

by Mark Bauerlein

Book Overview

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"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812216253
• ISBN13: 9780812216257
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"