LEADER 04204nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910455272503321 005 20210512173908.0 010 $a1-281-72922-1 010 $a0-300-12889-4 010 $a9786611729226 010 $a0-585-34386-1 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300128895 035 $a(CKB)111004366653098 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23049537 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000238446 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11924898 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000238446 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10222386 035 $a(PQKB)10659629 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420327 035 $a(WaSeSS)Ind00071420 035 $a(DE-B1597)485449 035 $a(OCoLC)952733891 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300128895 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420327 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10210210 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL172922 035 $a(OCoLC)923592254 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004366653098 100 $a19970509d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe rise and fall of English$b[electronic resource] $ereconstructing English as a discipline /$fRobert Scholes 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc1998 215 $a1 online resource (220 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-07151-5 311 $a0-300-08084-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [191]-195) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tCHAPTER 1. The Rise of English in Two American Colleges --$tCHAPTER 2. "No dog would go on living like this" --$tCHAPTER 3. What Is Becoming an English Teacher? --$tCHAPTER 4. A Flock of Cultures: A Trivial Proposal --$tCHAPTER 5. A Fortunate Fall? --$tAppendixes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex 330 $aIn this lucid book an eminent scholar, teacher, and author takes a critical look at the nature and direction of English studies in America. Robert Scholes offers a thoughtful and witty intervention in current debates about educational and cultural values and goals, showing how English came to occupy its present place in our educational system, diagnosing the educational illness he perceives in today's English departments, and recommending theoretical and practical changes in the field of English studies. Scholes's position defies neat labels-it is a deeply conservative expression of the wish to preserve the best in the English tradition of verbal and textual studies, yet it is a radical argument for reconstruction of the discipline of English.The book begins by examining the history of the rapid rise of English at two American universities-Yale and Brown-at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. Scholes argues that the subsequent fall of English-discernible today in college English departments across the United States-is the result of both cultural shifts and changes within the field of English itself. He calls for a fundamental reorientation of the discipline-away from political or highly theoretical issues, away from a specific canon of texts, and toward a canon of methods, to be used in the process of learning how to situate, compose, and read a text. He offers an eloquent proposal for a discipline based on rhetoric and the teaching of reading and writing over a broad range of literatures, a discipline that includes literariness but is not limited to it. 606 $aEnglish philology$xStudy and teaching$zUnited States 606 $aLanguage arts (Secondary)$zUnited States 606 $aEnglish philology$xStudy and teaching$zGreat Britain 606 $aEnglish teachers$zUnited States$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish philology$xStudy and teaching 615 0$aLanguage arts (Secondary) 615 0$aEnglish philology$xStudy and teaching 615 0$aEnglish teachers 676 $a420/.71/173 700 $aScholes$b Robert$f1929-2016.$0875443 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455272503321 996 $aThe rise and fall of English$92458019 997 $aUNINA