Professional Correctness: Literary studies and political change
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Excerpt
The discipline of literary criticism is strictly defined, and the most pressing issues of our time―racism, violence against women and homosexuals, cultural imperialism, and the like―are located outside its domain. In Professional Correctness, Stanley Fish raises a provocative challenge to those who try to turn literary studies into an instrument of political change, arguing that when literary critics try to influence society at large by addressing social and political issues, they cease to be literary critics at all. Anyone interested in the debate over the place of cultural studies in the field of literary criticism, or the more general question of whether academics can become the "public intellectuals" many aspire to be, needs to read Fish's powerful and unconventional argument for restoring discipline to the academy.
Description
xi, 146 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN
0198123736
Publication Date
1995
Publisher
Oxford University Press
City
New York
Keywords
Criticism, Literature, Social aspects, Literature and society, Political correctness in literature, Politics and literature
Disciplines
Law | Law and Society
Recommended Citation
Fish, Stanley, "Professional Correctness: Literary studies and political change" (1995). Faculty Books. 35.
https://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/faculty_books/35
Comments
Includes index.