Scholar's Art Literary Studies in a Managed World

Name: Scholar's Art Literary Studies in a Managed World
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ISBN: 9780226500850

ISBN-10: 0226500853

ISBN-13: 9780226500850

Edition: 2006

Authors: Jerome J. McGann

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For Jerome McGann, the purpose of scholarship is to preserve and pass on cultural heritage, a feat accomplished through discussion among scholars and interested nonspecialists. In "The Scholar's Art, "a collection of thirteen essays, McGann both addresses and exemplifies that discussion and the vocation it supports. Of particular interest to McGann is the demise of public discourse about poetry. That poetry has become recondite is, to his mind, at once a problem for how scholars do their work and a general cultural emergency. "The Scholar's Art" asks what could be gained by reimagining the way scholars have codified the literary and cultural history of the past two hundred years and goes…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/15/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.90" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: Loose Canons



"Not My Literary History!"



High Instincts and Real Presences: Two Romantic Responses to the Death of Beauty



Romanticism, Post-Romanticism, and the Afterlife of Cultural Authority



The Life of the Dead: Laura Riding and the History of Twentieth-Century Writing



Philological Investigations



My Kinsman Walter Scott



Tennyson and the Artists of the Beautiful



Beauty, a (Nineteenth-Century) User's Manual



Mr. James and His Discovery



Interpretation in a New Key



Interpretation as a Game That Must Be Lost



Visible Language, Interface, Ivanhoe



Humanism for the Twenty-First Century



Impossible Fiction; or, The Importance of Being John Cowper Powys



Beauty, the Irreal, and the Willing Assumption of Disbelief


Coda: The Scholar's Art


Notes


Works Cited


Index