Disciplining English: Alternative Histories, Critical PerspectivesDavid R. Shumway, Craig Dionne State University of New York Press, 1 févr. 2012 - 237 pages These provocative essays explore the unwritten, often unacknowledged codes, conventions, and ideologies overseeing the evolution and current practice of English as a "discipline." The first section of the book offers historical perspectives: how "composition" became distinguished from "literature," how key intellectuals shaped the discipline, and how various specialties—Renaissance literature, American literature, "theory"—became subfields. The second section focuses on how certain aesthetic categories of art and universal experience persist today in the actual teaching and writing of "English." While it is fashionable to say that we are living in the age of poststructuralism, or that literary theory has delivered us from idealized conceptions of authorship and inherent meaning, these essays examine how these conceptions nevertheless remain and are transmitted: in different types of classroom settings, in textbooks, and in the self-fashioning of academic careers. At a time when the role and function of English departments have become matters of both academic and public debate, this book will be a welcome resource for students, professionals, and anyone interested in the Culture Wars of the past two decades. |
Table des matières
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Institutionalizing English Rhetoric on the Boundaries | 39 |
A Short History of a Border War Social Science School Reform and the Study of Literature | 59 |
Period Making and the Discipline A Genealogy of the Idea of the Renaissance in ELH | 83 |
Emerson and the Shape of American Literature | 99 |
The Posttheory Generation | 115 |
THE CURRENT ARRANGEMENTS | 135 |
Composing Literary Studies in Graduate Courses | 137 |
Inventing Gender Creative Writing and Critical Agency | 149 |
Profiting Pedants Symbolic Capital Text Editing and Cultural Reproduction | 159 |
A New Kind of Work Publishing Theory and Cultural Studies | 179 |
What Hath English Wrought The Corporate Universitys Fast Food Discipline | 195 |
Afterword | 213 |
Contributors | 221 |
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Références à ce livre
The Origins of American Literature Studies: An Institutional History Elizabeth Renker Aucun aperçu disponible - 2007 |