The Scholar's Art: Literary Studies in a Managed World

by Jerome J. McGann

Book Overview

For Jerome McGann, the purpose of scholarship is to preserve and pass on cultural heritage, a feat accomplished through discussion among scholars and interested nonspecialists. In The Scholar's Art, a collection of thirteen essays, McGann both addresses and exemplifies that discussion and the vocation it supports.

Of particular interest to McGann is the demise of public discourse about poetry. That poetry has become recondite is, to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226500853
• ISBN13: 9780226500850
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"