ARGONAUT BOOKS

As the humanities in higher education struggle with a labor crisis and with declining enrollments, the travails of literary study are especially profound. No scholar has analyzed the discipline's contradictions as authoritatively as John Guillory. In this book, Guillory shows how the study of literature has been organized, both historically and in the modern era, both before and after its professionalization. Reviews "In Professing Criticism, [Guillory] takes on an even bigger question: What is literary criticism-specifically, the kind of highly specialized, theoretically so...Read More