Keywords:
English language -- Political aspects -- United States
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English literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
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English philology -- Study and teaching -- Political aspects -- United States
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English philology -- Vocational guidance
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English teachers -- Employment -- United States
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Interdisciplinary approach in education
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Language and culture -- United States
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Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
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 En
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
Online-Ressource (272 p.)
ISBN:
9780814713006
Series Statement:
Cultural Front Series
URL:
http://gbv.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=866151
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=866151
DDC:
807
Language:
English
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; PREFACE; I EMPLOYMENT IN ENGLISH; 1 CULTURAL STUDIES AND CULTURAL CAPITAL; 2 THE BLESSED OF THE EARTH; 3 PROFESSIONAL OBLIGATIONS AND ACADEMIC STANDARDS; 4 PEER PRESSURE: POLITICAL TENSIONS IN THE BEAR MARKET; 5 STRAIGHT OUTTA NORMAL: NONPROFIT FICTION PUBLISHING ON THE MARGINS; II EMPLOYING ENGLISH; 6 ENGLISH FOR EMPLOYMENT; 7 PROFESSIONAL ADVOCATES: WHEN IS "ADVOCACY" PART OF ONE'S VOCATION?; 8 FREE SPEECH AND DISCIPLINE: THE BOUNDARIES OF THE MULTIVERSITY; 9 EXTREME PREJUDICE: THE COARSENING OF AMERICAN CONSERVATISM
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10 CULTURAL CRITICISM AND THE POLITICS OF SELLING OUTWORKS CITED; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR;
