Token Professionals and Master Critics

Download or read book Token Professionals and Master Critics written by James J. Sosnoski and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1994-03-08 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses literary critics in mainstream institutions who, though they vastly outnumber their colleagues in more prestigious institutions, have little voice in the profession. It examines the structures through which the institution of literary critical pressures its members to accept orthodoxy/heterodoxy as categories to describe their work, which in turn provokes theory wars. This opposition produces a method/application dichotomy that renders members' pursuits scientistic.