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Article: The Scholar's Art: Literary Studies in a Managed World.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2007
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The Scholar's Art: Literary Studies in a Managed World. By JEROME McGANN. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2006. xii + 239 pp. $22; 14 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-226-50085-0.
The Scholar's Art--Jerome McGann's seventeenth monograph by my count--situates itself in the tension between the world of managed thought and the scholar's commitment to critical care, accuracy, and the critical preservation of public memory. The book has a number of narrative strands, but two of them gradually absorb many of the smaller lines and branches. The first is the mapping of an alternative literary history, and the second has to do with the critical consequences ...