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How has literature become established as a separate domain within the university? Demonstrating that these questions of division are intricately related, Peggy Kamuf explores in this text, the space that the university devotes to the study of literature.

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Acknowledgments Introduction: Catachresis and Institution 1: The University Founders 2: The Rhetoric of Ruin 3: The Walls of Science 4: Peguy and the Event of History 5: The University in Deconstruction Prologue: The Impasse of Literary History Prologue: Melville's Credit Card Epilogue: A Future for It Notes Index

The Divison of Literature Or the University in

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      Publisher: University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 3/2/1997 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226423234, 978-0226423234
      ISBN10: 0226423239
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      Literary theory Higher education, tertiary education

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      How has literature become established as a separate domain within the university? Demonstrating that these questions of division are intricately related, Peggy Kamuf explores in this text, the space that the university devotes to the study of literature.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments Introduction: Catachresis and Institution 1: The University Founders 2: The Rhetoric of Ruin 3: The Walls of Science 4: Peguy and the Event of History 5: The University in Deconstruction Prologue: The Impasse of Literary History Prologue: Melville's Credit Card Epilogue: A Future for It Notes Index

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