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- Title: Credibility: The Next Challenge (Forum)
- Author : The German Quarterly
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 168 KB
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In the nineteenth century, studying literature meant studying the history of older literatures through the lens of philology--a historical discipline, less than an interpretive one. The degree-granting study of literature (especially contemporary) was an artifact of the early twentieth century. In the US after the Second World War, however, the study of literature became ideologized in a very particular way, we recognize now: as part of the post-war postsecondary curriculum that tried to define the "educated human" whose image resonated through Harvard, Yale, and Princeton up through the 1970s. The backlash (especially in the college curriculum) came in the so-called "canon wars," when the ideology of literary and social style and privilege came under critique as a tool of hegemony, leading to new critical interest in cultural processes and group-identity politics rather than literary form, style, or purportedly eternal human values. What has not been pursued to any great degree is how this shift of disciplinary practice has impacted the day-to-day business of scholarship, nor how it might change our position in the curriculum. Most particularly, no one has asked the question I wish to pose here: are we in a credibility crisis as scholars, teachers, and professionals? I think the answer is yes, which requires us to ask an additional question: what constitutes professional credibility today?
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