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

by Peggy Kamuf


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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
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • 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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