The Institution of Theory

Originally published in 1994. In The Institution of Theory, Murray Krieger examines, at once sympathetically and critically, the process by which theory has become institutionalized in the American academy and the consequences of theory as an academic institution. He traces the transformation of lit...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Krieger, Murray, 1923-2000., author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Johns Hopkins University Press
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Institutionalizing Theory: From Literary Criticism to Literary Theory to Critical Theory
  • 2. Two Faces of an Old Argument: History versus Formalism in American Criticism
  • 3. The Ideological Imperative and Counterideological Resistance
  • 4. A Hortatory Conclusion.