ISBN:
9780814723425
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081472342X
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (272 pages)
Series Statement:
Cultural Front Series
Parallel Title:
Bérubé, Michael, 1961 - The employment of English
Parallel Title:
Print version Bérubé, Michael F Employment of English : Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies
Keywords:
Interdisciplinary approach in education
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Language and culture
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English teachers Employment
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English language Political aspects
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English literature History and criticism
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Theory, etc
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English philology Study and teaching
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Political aspects
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Interdisciplinary approach in education
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Language and culture
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English teachers
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English language
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English literature
;
English philology
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English literature ; Theory, etc
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English philology ; Study and teaching ; Political aspects
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English teachers ; Employment
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Interdisciplinary approach in education
;
Language and culture
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United States
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SCIENCE ; Astronomy
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Criticism, interpretation, etc
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English language ; Political aspects
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Electronic books
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USA
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Anglistik
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Literaturwissenschaft
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
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