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Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies

Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies

Bérubé, Michael

Hardcover

Series: Cultural Front, Book 13

Literary CriticismGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0814713009
ISBN13: 9780814713006
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Published: Dec 1 1997
Pages: 270
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.56 Depth: 9.06
Language: English

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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