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Challenging Humanism: Jews, Theory, and Yale During the Closing Decades of the Twentieth Century

From the early 1970s to the late 1980s, a group of second-generation Jewish literary critics, scholars, and poets at Yale University developed Theory from a social standpoint originating outside White, Male, Christian-Protestant perspectives and norms. Informed by changes at the University and across American higher education then decentering humanist culture, these pioneering Jews, first, uncovered and reworked the principles of literary scholarship, and, then, helped inaugurate an array of curricular and intellectual changes.

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