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Tables of Contents for The Institution of Literature
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
vii
Introduction: Institutionally Speaking
1
18
I. The Institution of Theory
Framing Theory: The Disorganization of Historiography
19
6
The Theory Junkyard
25
18
Orbiting Planet Foucault
43
18
This Feminism Which is Not One: Women, Generations, Institutions
61
16
II. The Question of Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies: Literary Criticism's Alter Ego
77
18
Peer Pressure: Literary and Cultural Studies in the Bear Market
95
16
The Work of Cultural Studies in the Age of Transnational Production
111
42
III. Professional Channels
Dancing in the Dark: A Manifesto against Professional Organizations
153
20
The Star System in Literary Studies
173
30
The Life of the Mind and the Academic Situation
203
26
IV. The Job of Literature
Time Out of Mind: Graduate Students in the Institution of English
229
12
Getting Hired
241
24
The Educational Politics of Human Resources: Humanities Teachers as Resource Managers
265
24
Contributors
289
2
Index
291