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'Philosophical Meta-Reflections on Literary Studies: Why Do Things with Texts, and What to Do with Them?' takes up key meta-questions in the humanities, with focus on contemporary literary studies, philosophically examines the nature of knowledge therein as well as the implications of certain popular critical approaches, and addresses the effervescent question of 'relevance'.
List of contents
Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Why and Wherefore of Academic Disciplines: The Humanities and the Human World Process; If Literature were to Disappear from the Spectrum of Disciplines...; Beyond for and Against: Tendencies of Contemporary Criticism; The Aesthetic and the Political; References; Index.
About the author
Jibu Mathew George is assistant professor in the Department of Indian and World Literatures, School of Literary Studies, the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. He is the author of The Ontology of Gods: An Account of Enchantment, Disenchantment, and Re-Enchantment (2017) and Ulysses Quot¿di¿nus: James Joyce's Inverse Histories of the Everyday (2016).
Summary
'Philosophical Meta-Reflections on Literary Studies: Why Do Things with Texts, and What to Do with Them?' takes up key meta-questions in the humanities, with focus on contemporary literary studies, philosophically examines the nature of knowledge therein as well as the implications of certain popular critical approaches, and addresses the effervescent question of 'relevance'.
