UID:
kobvindex_HPB913695282
Format:
1 online resource (256 pages)
ISBN:
9780814759271
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0814759270
Content:
In an age when innovative scholarly work is at an all-time high, the academy itself is being rocked by structural change. Funding is plummeting. Tenure increasingly seems a prospect for only the elite few. Ph. D.'s are going begging for even adjunct work. Into this tumult steps Cary Nelson, with a no- holds-barred account of recent developments in higher education. Eloquent and witty, Manifesto of a Tenured Radical urges academics to apply the theoretical advances of the last twenty years to an analysis of their own practices and standards of behavior. In the process, Nelson offers a devasta.
Note:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; I THE POLITICS OF ENGLISH; 1 AGAINST ENGLISH AS IT WAS: THEORY AND THE POLITICS OF THE DISCIPLINE; 2 MULTICULTURALISM WITHOUT GUARANTEES: FROM ANTHOLOGIES TO THE SOCIAL TEXT; 3 RELATIVISM, POLITICS, AND ETHICS: WRITING LITERARY HISTORY IN THE SHADOW OF POSTSTRUCTURALISM; 4 ALWAYS ALREADY CULTURAL STUDIES: ACADEMIC CONFERENCES AND A MANIFESTO; II THE ACADEMY AND THE CULTURE DEBATES; 5 PROGRESSIVE PEDAGOGY WITHOUT APOLOGIES: THE CULTURAL WORK OF TEACHING NONCANONICAL POETRY.
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6 canon fodder: an evening with william bennett, lynne cheney, and dinesh d'souza7 hate speech and political correctness; 8 what happens when we put the left at the center?; iii lessons from the job wars; 9 dichotomy is where the money is: anti-intellectualism inside and outside the university; 10 late capitalism arrives on campus: the corporate university's expendable employees; 11 what is to be done?: a twelve-step program for academia; 12 reaction and resistance at yale and the mla: union organizing and the job market; notes; bibliography; index; about the author.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Nelson, Cary. Manifesto of a Tenured Radical. New York : NYU Press, ©1997 ISBN 9780814757970
Language:
English
