LEADER 05204nam 22007455 450 001 9910213822603321 005 20220504215616.0 010 $a0-585-33777-2 010 $a0-8147-2342-X 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814723425 035 $a(CKB)2670000000167905 035 $a(EBL)866151 035 $a(OCoLC)782878113 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000146303 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11158615 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000146303 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10183079 035 $a(PQKB)10645061 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC866151 035 $a(OCoLC)45844042 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse10872 035 $a(DE-B1597)547914 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814723425 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000167905 100 $a20200623h19971997 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEmployment of English $etheory, jobs, and the future of literary studies /$fMichael Bérubé 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cNew York University Press,$d[1997] 210 4$d©1997 215 $a1 online resource (272 p.) 225 0 $aCultural Front ;$v13 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8147-1301-7 311 $a0-8147-1300-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [243]-251) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tCONTENTS --$tPREFACE --$t1. CULTURAL STUDIES AND CULTURAL CAPITAL --$t2. THE BLESSED OF THE EARTH --$t3. PROFESSIONAL OBLIGATIONS AND ACADEMIC STANDARDS --$t4. PEER PRESSURE --$t5. STRAIGHT OUTTA NORMAL --$t6. ENGLISH FOR EMPLOYMENT --$t7. PROFESSIONAL ADVOCATES --$t8. FREE SPEECH AND DISCIPLINE --$t9. EXTREME PREJUDICE --$t10. CULTURAL CRITICISM AND THE POLITICS OF SELLING OUT --$tWORKS CITED --$tINDEX --$tABOUT THE AUTHOR 330 $aWhat 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. What sorts of cultural criticism are teachers and scholars to produce, and how can that criticism be "employed" in the culture at large? In The Employment of English, Michael Bérubé, one of our most eloquent and gifted critics, examines the cultural legitimacy of literary study. In witty, engaging prose, Bérubé asserts that we must situate these questions in a context in which nearly half of all college professors are part-time labor and in which English departments are torn between their traditional mission of defining movements of literary history and protocols of textual interpretation, and their newer tasks of interrogating wider systems of signification under rubrics like "gender," "hegemony," "rhetoric," "textuality" (including film and video), and "culture." Are these new roles a betrayal of the field's founding principles, in effect a short-sighted sell-out of the discipline? Do they represent little more that an attempt to shore up the status of--and student enrollments in--English? Or are they legitimate objects of literary study, in need of public support? Simultaneously investigating the economic and the intellectual ramifications of current debates, The Employment of English provides the clearest and most condensed account of this controversy to date. 410 0$aCultural front (Series) 606 $aLanguage and culture$zUnited States 606 $aEnglish philology$xVocational guidance 606 $aInterdisciplinary approach in education 606 $aEnglish teachers$xEmployment$zUnited States 606 $aEnglish language$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States 606 $aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aEnglish philology$xStudy and teaching$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States 615 0$aLanguage and culture 615 0$aEnglish philology$xVocational guidance. 615 0$aInterdisciplinary approach in education. 615 0$aEnglish teachers$xEmployment 615 0$aEnglish language$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aEnglish philology$xStudy and teaching$xPolitical aspects 676 $a807 686 $aHG 130$2rvk 700 $aBérubé$b Michael$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01214146 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910213822603321 996 $aEmployment of English$92803912 997 $aUNINA