Professional Correctness

Literary Studies and Political Change

By: Stanley Fish

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Paperback | 1 April 1999 | Edition Number 1

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The discipline of literary criticism is strictly defined, and the most pressing issues of our time-racism, violence against women and homosexuals, cultural imperialism, and the like-are located outside its domain. In Professional Correctness, Stanley Fish raises a provocative challenge to those who try to turn literary studies into an instrument of political change, arguing that when literary critics try to influence society at large by addressing social and political issues, they cease to be literary critics at all.

Anyone interested in the debate over the place of cultural studies in the field of literary criticism, or the more general question of whether academics can become the "public intellectuals" many aspire to be, needs to read Fish's powerful and unconventional argument for restoring discipline to the academy.

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Fish has written a very stylish, muscular little book arguing that the enemies of literary study are the new Historicism and cultural studies, and that more professionalism just might save the sinking ship. -- Rick Perlstein The Nation

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Non-Fiction Education Higher & Further Education Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Theory Sociology & Anthropology Society & Culture

Preface	p. vii
Yet Once More	p. 1
Distinctiveness: Its Achievement and Its Costs	p. 19
Disciplinary Tasks and Political Intentions	p. 41
Looking Elsewhere: Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinarity	p. 71
Why Literary Criticism is like Virtue	p. 93
Coda Public Justification and Public Intellectuals	p. 115
Appendix the: Folger Papers	p. 127
Index	p. 143
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