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As we approach the end of a millennium, the battle for the fate of literary scholarship has taken on near apocalyptic overtones, with more than a few predictions of the imminent end of literary studies as we know it. Taking aim at culture warriors on the left and the right, Goodheart provides a succinct and timely assessment of the current state and future of literary studies in the United States. In Goodhearts view, the opposition between tradition (the cause of the right) and innovation (the cause of the left) is essentially tradition is an interactive history between the given and the innovative, not an inert set of values or a stable canon of approved texts. Does Literary Studies Have a Future? challenges the view that literary classics must be relevant to our immediate rather than providing easy recognition of what we already know, the classic startles the unfamiliar in us. Goodheart pays particular attention to David Denbys recent experiment with the Great Books. He also addresses the question of objectivity in humanistic studythe vexed relations between sthetics and ideology. Finally, he dissects the academys current love affair with popular culture. None of the other writin

Author

Goodheart, Eugene

Publisher

The University of Wisconsin Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780299166502

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities