Canons and Contexts
1st Edition
Published on 28. March 1991
315 pages
978-0-19-536174-2 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of essays places issues central to literary study, particularly the question of the canon, in the context of institutional practices in American colleges and universities. Lauter addresses such crucial concerns as what students should read and study, how standards of "quality" are defined and changed, the limits of theoretical discourse, and the ways race, gender, and class shape not only teaching, curricula, and research priorities, but collegiate personnel actions as well. The book examines critically the variety of recent proposals for "reforming" higher education, and it calls into question many practices, like employing large numbers of part-timers, now popular with college managers. Offering concrete examples of a "comparative" method for teaching literary texts, and specific instances about "integrating" curricula, Canons and Contexts proposes realistic ideas for creating varied, spirited, and democratic classrooms and colleges.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- PART I: The Canon and the Literary Profession
- Society and the Profession, 1958-83
- Race and Gender in the Shaping of the American Literary Canon: A Case Study from the Twenties
- The Literatures of America-A Comparative Discipline
- Reconstructing American Literature-Curricular Issues
- Teaching Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers
- The Two Criticisms-or, Structure, Lingo, and Power in the Discourse of Academic Humanists
- Canon Theory and Emergent Practice
- PART II: The University and The Republic
- Retrenchment-What the Managers Are Doing
- A Scandalous Misuse of Faculty-Adjuncts
- Beyond Consciousness Raising-Changing Institutions
- University Reform-Threat or Opportunity
- Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth
- Whose Culture? Whose Literacy?
- The Book of Bloom and the Discourse of Difference
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
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- W
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