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Employment of English : theory, jobs, and the future of literary studies /

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 lit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bérubé, Michael F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 1997.
Colección:Cultural front (Series)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cultural studies and cultural capital
  • The blessed of the earth
  • Professional obligations and academic standards
  • Peer pressure : political tensions in the bear market
  • Straight outta normal : nonprofit fiction publishing on the margins
  • English for employment
  • Professional advocates : when is "advocacy" part of one's vocation?
  • Free speech and discipline : the boundaries of the multiversity
  • Extreme prejudice : the coarsening of American conservatism
  • Cultural criticism and the politics of selling out. Works cited.