Token Professionals and Master Critics: A Critique of Orthodoxy in Literary Studies - Sosnoski, James J.
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This book addresses literary critics in mainstream institutions who, though they vastly outnumber their colleagues in more prestigious institutions, have little voice in the profession. It examines the structures through which the institution of literary criticism pressures its members to accept orthodoxy/heterodoxy as categories to describe their work, which in turn provokes theory wars. This opposition produces a method/ application dichotomy which renders members' pursuits scientistic.

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This book addresses literary critics in mainstream institutions who, though they vastly outnumber their colleagues in more prestigious institutions, have little voice in the profession. It examines the structures through which the institution of literary criticism pressures its members to accept orthodoxy/heterodoxy as categories to describe their work, which in turn provokes theory wars. This opposition produces a method/ application dichotomy which renders members' pursuits scientistic.
Autorenporträt
James J. Sosnoski is Professor of English at Miami University in Ohio and Executive Director of Alternative Educational Environments, a non-profit organization for the development of collaborative research through telecommunication. He is the author of Modern Skeletons in Postmodern Closets: A Cultural Studies Alternative to the Disciplining of Literary Studies