Token Professionals and Master Critics

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Token Professionals and Master Critics is written by James J. Sosnoski and published by SUNY Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 079141809X (ISBN 10) and 9780791418093 (ISBN 13).

This book addresses literary critics in mainstream institutions who, though they vastly outnumber their colleagues in more prestigious institutions, have little voice in the profession. It examines the structures through which the institution of literary critical pressures its members to accept orthodoxy/heterodoxy as categories to describe their work, which in turn provokes theory wars. This opposition produces a method/application dichotomy that renders members' pursuits scientistic.