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Reconstruction in literary studies = an informalist approach /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Reconstruction in literary studies/ Bryan Vescio.
Reminder of title:	an informalist approach /
Author:	Vescio, Bryan.
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2014.,
Description:	256 p.
Notes:	Electronic book text.
Subject:	Literature - Study and teaching -
Online resource:	Online journal 'available contents' page
ISBN:	113742883X

Reconstruction in literary studies = an informalist approach /
Vescio, Bryan.

Reconstruction in literary studiesan informalist approach /[electronic resource] :Bryan Vescio. - 1st ed. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan,2014. - 256 p.

Electronic book text.

Introduction: Formalism, Anti-Formalism, and Informalism PART I: INFORMALISM VS. FORMALISM 1. Purposiveness with a Purpose: Post-Darwinian Aesthetics and Literary Studies 2. Experiences or Vocabularies?: Pragmatism, Textualism, and the Teaching of Literature 3. The Ministry of Disturbance: Literary Studies without Method PART II: INFORMALISM VS. ANTI-FORMALISM 4. The Legacy of Deconstruction: Quasi-Transcendental Philosophy and Quasi-Private Literature 5. The Very Idea of Literature: A New Cultural Formalism Conclusion: Literary Studies and the Culture of Justification.

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Pointing the way toward a revitalized future for the study of literature, Reconstruction in Literary Studies draws on philosophical pragmatism to justify the academic study of literature. In turn, Vescio connects the changing field to its social function as an institution.Pointing the way toward a revitalized future for the study of literature, Reconstruction in Literary Studies draws on philosophical pragmatism to justify the academic study of literature. Bryan Vescio repositions the discipline by conceiving of it not as an intrinsic good that needs no justification nor as an insidious ruse designed to perpetuate social inequality but as an institution with a distinctive, positive social function. Joining an urgent debate, Vescio argues that the institution of literary study within the university creates an environment of interpretive and methodological pluralism where scholars and students can develop and discuss their idiosyncratic individuality, thereby helping to maintain the productive diversity required to sustain a democratic culture. Satisfied neither with the profession's restrictive past nor with its increasingly stagnant present, this book points the way toward a revitalized future for the study of literature.

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Bryan Vescio is Associate Professor of English and Humanistic Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, USA. He teaches and writes on American literature and the relationship between literature and philosophy.

ISBN: 113742883XSubjects--Topical Terms:

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Literature
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LC Class. No.: PN45 / .V37 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 807

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