The Institution of Theory

• Main Author: Krieger, Murray (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2019
• Subjects: Literary theory
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Originally published in 1994. In The Institution of Theory, Murray Krieger examines, at once sympathetically and critically, the process by which theory has become institutionalized in the American academy and the consequences of theory as an academic institution. He traces the transformation of lit...