Plausible and helpful things to say about literature in a time when all print institutions are breaking down / Alvin Kernan -- The canon and the classroom : a caveat / Leslie A. Fiedler -- English as something else / Geoffrey Hartman -- The welcoming table / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- The institutionalization of feminist criticism / Jane Gallop -- Sodometries / Jonathan Goldberg -- Multiculturalism and criticism / John Brenkman -- The unbearable ugliness of Volvos / Stanley Fish -- Preaching to the converted / Gerald Graff -- Socratic raptures, Socratic ruptures : notes toward queer performativity / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Summary
A collection of essays in which a group of academic literary critics take a close look at the current state of the discipline and envisage its future. Topics include current controversies within Afro-American and feminist criticism, and the influence of cultural and gay studies
Notes
"Essays from the 50th anniversary of the English Institute."
