The Division of Literature: Or the University in Deconstruction

by Peggy Kamuf

Book Overview

Where does the university begin and the "outside" end? How has literature become established as a separate domain within the university? Demonstrating that these questions of division are intricately related, Peggy Kamuf explores the space that the university devotes to the study of literature.

Kamuf begins by analyzing the complex history of literary study within the modern university, critically reading developments from the French Revolution...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226423247
• ISBN13: 9780226423241
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"