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The Division of Literature: Or the University in Deconstruction Hardcover - 1997 - 1st Edition

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Where does the university begin and the outside end? How has literature become established as a separate domain within the university? Demonstrating that these questions of division are intricately related, Peggy Kamuf explores the space that the university devotes to the study of literature. Kamuf begins by analyzing the complex history of literary study within the modern university, critically reading developments from the French Revolution through the nineteenth century and beyond in Europe. She then turns to one of the most troubling works in the American literary canon--Melville's The Confidence-Man--to show how academic literary history has avoided confronting the implications of works in which meaning is never solely confined within a past. By engaging a future readership to which it applies for credit, Kamuf argues, literature cannot serve as a stable object of study. It locates, rather, a site of the university in deconstruction. Ranging from disciplinary histories of literature to our current culture wars, Kamuf offers a fascinating critique of academic literary study.

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The inclusion of literary study is a distinctive trait of the modern, scientific university. But this legitimation of a "division of literature" has been from the beginning a tenuous, ambivalent, and divisive affair. Why and to what effect? These questions guide Peggy Kamuf's analysis of the complex history of literary study in the modern university and orient her critical reading of developments from the French Revolution through the nineteenth century and beyond in Europe. She then turns to one of the most troubling works in the American literary canon - Melville's The Confidence-Man - to show how academic literary history has avoided confronting the implications of works in which meaning is never solely confined within a past. By engaging a future readership to which it applies for credit, Kamuf argues, literature cannot serve as a stable object of study. It locates, rather, a site of "the university in deconstruction".

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Title The Division of Literature: Or the University in Deconstruction
Author Peggy Kamuf
Binding Hardcover
Edition number 1st
Edition 1
Pages 268
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Date 1997-03
ISBN 9780226423234 / 0226423239
Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
Dimensions 9.33 x 6.3 x 0.81 in (23.70 x 16.00 x 2.06 cm)
Library of Congress subjects Criticism, Deconstruction
Library of Congress Catalog Number 96020255
Dewey Decimal Code 807.117

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