Research Catalog

Title

A manifesto for literary studies / Marjorie Garber.

Author

Garber, Marjorie B.

Publication

Seattle : Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities : Distributed by the University of Washington Press, ©2003.

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Details

Description

69 pages; 26 cm.

Summary

• "A Manifesto for Literary Studies, writes Marjorie Garber, "is an attempt to remind us of the specificity of what it means to ask literary questions, and the pleasure of thinking through and with literature. It is a manifesto in the sense that it invites strong declarations and big ideas, rather than impeccable small contributions to edifices long under construction."
• Known for her timely challenges to the preconceptions and often unquestioned boundaries that circumscribe our culture, Garber's beautifully crafted arguments situate "big public questions of intellectual importance"--Such as those of human nature and historical correctness - within the practice of literary historians and critics.
• This manifesto revives the ancient craft whose ultimate focus is language in action. In this book, Garber passionately concludes that "the future importance of literary studies - and, if we care about such things, its intellectual and cultural prestige both among the other disciplines and in the world - will come from taking risks, and not from playing it safe.""--Jacket.

Series Statement

Short studies from the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities

Uniform Title

Short studies from the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities

Subject

• English literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc
• American literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc
• Literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc
• 17.70 study of literature: general
• English literature > Theory, etc
• Literature > Theory, etc
• Literaturwissenschaft
• Literatuurwetenschap

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction: Asking Literary Questions -- Who Owns "Human Nature"? -- Historical Correctness: The Use and Abuse of History for Literature.

ISBN

• 0295983442
• 9780295983448

LCCN

2003062196

OCLC

• ocm53075935
• 53075935
• SCSB-14513577

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library