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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462115903321

Titolo

Disciplining English [[electronic resource] ] : alternative histories, critical perspectives / / edited by David R. Shumway and Craig Dionne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, NY, : State University of New York Press, c2002

ISBN

0-7914-8864-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ShumwayDavid R

DionneCraig

Disciplina

428/.0071

Soggetti

English philology - Study and teaching

English philology - Study and teaching - History

English literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

American literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Disciplining English: Alternative Histories, Critical Perspectives""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""PART I: EPISODES IN THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH""; ""1. Child's Ballads: Narrating Histories of Composition and Literary Studies""; ""2. Institutionalizing English: Rhetoric on the Boundaries""; ""3. A Short History of a Border War: Social Science,School Reform, and the Study of Literature""; ""4. Period Making and the Discipline: A Genealogy of the Idea of the Renaissance in ELH""; ""5. Emerson and the Shape of American Literature""; ""6. The Post theory Generation""

""PART II: THE CURRENT ARRANGEMENTS""""7. Composing Literary Studies in Graduate Courses""; ""8. Inventing Gender: Creative Writing and Critical Agency""; ""9. Profiting Pedants: Symbolic Capital, Text Editing, and Cultural Reproduction""; ""10. A New Kind of Work: Publishing, Theory, and Cultural Studies""; ""11. What Hath English Wrought: The Corporate University's Fast Food Discipline""; ""Afterword""; ""Contributors""; ""Index"";