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A Taste for Language : Literacy, Class, and English Studies

"This is a book about the American Dream as it has become embodied in the university in general and in the English department in particular," writes James Ray Watkins at the start of A Taste for Language: Literacy, Class, and English Studies. In it, Watkins argues that contemporary economi...

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Autor principal: Watkins, James Ray
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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