Word: crisises
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For now, then, Michel Chaouli will continue urging his students and fellow scholars to embrace rather than lament the so-called crisis in literary studies.
It was this interest in the puzzling role literature plays in our lives that led Professor Chaouli to enter the debate over the crisis in literature. In an article published recently in the Times Literary Supplement, he puts forth the idea that this so-called crisis is actually what makes...
"The idea of a crisis in literary studies," Chaouli says, "has been around for at least the last 100 years, since the study of literature became institutionalized."
An Existential Crisis
The current "crisis" concerns literary studies' failure to fit the definition of what constitutes a proper academic discipline.