Showing papers by "Jonathan Culler published in 1988"
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01 Jun 1988
TL;DR: Culler et al. as discussed by the authors published a collection of essays about the role of race relations in the development of the Internet and its role in the Internet, including the following:
Abstract: Previously Published by Basil Blackwell, Inc. 432 Park Avenue South, Suite 1503, New York, NY 10016. Copyright 2005 by Jonathan Culler. All rights reserved.
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01 Jan 1988
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TL;DR: The GRIP group has pursued problems that are increasingly recognized as central to thinking about literary studies: how questions about the nature of literature and the methods of literary criticism are tied in with questions about institutional arrangements for the teaching and studying of literature, structures of authority, and professional procedures.
Abstract: For the past half-dozen years, the GRIP group has pursued problems that are increasingly recognized as central to thinking about literary studies: how questions about the nature of literature and the methods of literary criticism are tied in with questions about institutional arrangements for the teaching and studying of literature, structures of authority, and professional procedures. Instead of introducing institutional considerations only in polemical acts of debunking, GRIP has from the beginning promoted the serious, comprehensive study of the formation rules of disciplines. Theirs has been the most sustained attempt in literary studies to carry out the sort of program Michel Foucault's work has encouraged: to situate intellectual activities in a history of knowledge that is also a history of relations of power. Another novel feature of GRIP's work has been the emphasis on collective investigation. They have sought not only to experiment with the usual conditions of research and writing in the humanities but also to give a practical immediacy to their claim that knowledge depends upon shared assumptions. The essays gathered here show a grasp of varied institutional and ideological realities, from Ann Michelini's description of the conceptions of literary form that have generated and constrained debates about Euripides to Henry Schmidt's discussion of the failure of classical German humanism to oppose Nazism. An important contribution to the genealogy of criticism in the United States is Elizabeth Wilson's argument that the conceptions of literary studies in twentieth-
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