{"product_id":"9781350641280","title":"American Institutionist Writing Truth to Power","description":"\u003ch1\u003eAmerican Institutionist\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eWriting Truth to Power\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eJames D. Bloom\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ Modern \/ 20th Century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA wide-ranging study of American writers' entanglements with, dependence on, and resistance to institutions such as universities, courts, libraries, the military, media, this book offers a reappraisal of the necessity and limitations of 'institutional knowledge.'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the writings of Emerson to Dickinson, Hawthorne to Melville, American literature has been suffused with a preoccupation with, and challenge to, institutionalist gatekeeping. Kicked off by a rallying call from Ralph Waldo Emerson to his contemporaries and successors to write about \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e write against cultural institutions, he charged his compatriots with displacing prevailing assumptions and the rhetoric that sustained dominant institutions. This book frames and historicizes relationships between a broad range of writers, digging into how they took up this call and why the result requires a new neologism: 'institutionism.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book explores a huge range of key theoretical ideas, applying them to the prose, poetry, song lyrics and letters by the great U.S writers, including James Baldwin, Colson Whitehead, Toni Morrison, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nella Larsen, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Flannery O'Connor, James McBride, Percival Everett, Joan Didion, Chester Himes, Henry James, Philip Roth, Richard Wright, William Faulkner, Langston Hughes, Eudora Welty, Don DeLillo, Washington Irving, Jhumpa Lahiri, Bob Dylan, and Stephen Sondheim. Pairing an irreverent, slyly humorous tone with carefully considered close readings and an autobiographical account of the author himself becoming an 'institutionist', the book considers how the U.S might not have been blindsided by the MAGA crusade against knowledge bases had they taken heed from it's writers' assessment of institutional knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJames. D. Bloom\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English and Director of American Studies and the Self-Directed Inquiry Program at Muhlenberg College, USA, where he teaches writing and literature. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Stock of Available Reality\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLeft Letters\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLiterary Bent\u003c\/i\u003e, and his shorter work has appeared in such publications as \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eStyle\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e08 July 2027\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350641280\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e256\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51944945942668,"sku":"9781350641280","price":31.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781350641280","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}