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ISBN:
9780814723425
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081472342X
Series Statement:
Cultural Front Series
Content:
What sorts of cultural criticism are teachers and scholars to produce, and how can that criticism be "employed" in the culture at large?. In recent years, debates about the role and direction of English departments have mushroomed into a broader controversy over the public legitimacy of literary criticism. At first glance this might seem odd: few taxpayers and legislators care whether the nation's English professors are doing justice to the project of identifying the beautiful and the sublime. But in the context of the legitimation crisis in American higher education, the image of English departments has in fact played a major role in determining public attitudes toward colleges and college faculty. Similarly, the changing economic conditions of universities have prompted many English professors to rethink their relations to their "clients," asking how literary study can serve the American public
Content:
What sorts of cultural criticism are teachers and scholars to produce, and how can that criticism be "employed" in the culture at large?. In recent years, debates about the role and direction of English departments have mushroomed into a broader controversy over the public legitimacy of literary criticism. At first glance this might seem odd: few taxpayers and legislators care whether the nation's English professors are doing justice to the project of identifying the beautiful and the sublime. But in the context of the legitimation crisis in American higher education, the image of English departments has in fact played a major role in determining public attitudes toward colleges and college faculty. Similarly, the changing economic conditions of universities have prompted many English professors to rethink their relations to their "clients," asking how literary study can serve the American public
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814713006
Additional Edition:
Bérubé, Michael, 1961 - The employment of English New York [u.a.] : New York Univ. Press, 1998 ISBN 0814713009
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0814713017
Additional Edition:
Print version Bérubé, Michael F Employment of English : Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies New York : NYU Press, ©1997 ISBN 9780814713006
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
USA
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Anglistik
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Literaturwissenschaft
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Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books
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