Part One: The Formation and Deformation of Literary Study
Institution of Professions
Critique of Critical Criticism
Part Two: Organizing Literature: Foundations, Antecedents, Consequences
Monuments and Documents: On the Object of Study in the Humanities
The Postrhetorical Condition
Two Failed Disciplines: Belles Lettres and Philology
The Location of Literature
The Contradictions of Global English
Part Three: Professionalization and Its Discontents
9 On the Permanent Crisis of Graduate Education
Evaluating Scholarship in the Humanities
Composition and the Demand for Writing
The Question of Lay Reading
Conclusion: Ratio Studiorum.
