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The Division of Literature

Or the University in Deconstruction
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Where does the university begin and the "outside" end? How has literature become established as a separate domain within the university? Demonstrating that these questions of division are intricately related, Peggy Kamuf explores the space that the university devotes to the study of literature. Kamuf begins by analyzing the complex history of literary study within the modern university, critically reading developments from the French Revolution through the nineteenth century and beyond in Europe. She then turns to one of the most troubling works in the American literary canon—Melville's The Confidence-Man—to show how academic literary history has avoided confronting the implications of works in which meaning is never solely confined within a past. By engaging a future readership to which it applies for credit, Kamuf argues, literature cannot serve as a stable object of study. It locates, rather, a site of "the university in deconstruction." Ranging from disciplinary histories of literature to our current culture wars, Kamuf offers a fascinating critique of academic literary study.

Author Biography:

Peggy Kamuf is the Marion Frances Chevalier Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. She has written, edited, or translated many books, by Derrida and others, and is coeditor of the series of Derrida's seminars at the University of Chicago Press.
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February 15th, 1997
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  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Undergraduate
Pages
268
Dimensions
16x23x2
ISBN-13
9780226423241
Product ID
7488182

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