 | American Literature and the Culture Wars Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism -- Theory etc.; American literature -- Study and teaching -- United States; Pluralism (Social sciences) -- United States; Literature and society -- United States; Multiculturalism -- United States; Culture con; Gregory S. Jay boldly challenges the future of American literary studies. Why pursue the study and teaching of a distinctly American literature? What is the appropriate purpose and scope of such pursuits? Is the notion of a traditional canon of great... Gregory S. Jay is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the author of America the Scrivener: Deconstruction and the Subject of Literary History , also from Cornell. |
