Challenging Theory: Discipline After Deconstruction - Studies in European Cultural Transition , Volume One

List of contents

1. Opposition and Difference. 2. Mimesis and Metafiction. 3. Literature and Philosophy. 4. Literary Theory and Critical Practice. 5. Literary Studies and Cultural Studies. 6. Reason and Rhetoric. 7. Poetics and Politics.

About the author

Catherine Burgass, Martin Stannard, Gerg Walker

Summary

First published in 1999, this volume perceives that English literature in under threat as an academic discipline. In Challenging Theory , Catherine Burgass warns against the recent trend towards the conflation of literature teaching with cultural studies in British and American universities.

Product details

• Authors: BURGASS, catherine Burgass, Burgass Catherine
• Assisted by: Martin Stannard (Editor), Gerg Walker (Editor), Greg Walker (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781138625761
• ISBN: 978-1-138-62576-1
• No. of pages: 179
• Series: Routledge Revivals; Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General