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

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New York : NYU Press, 1997.

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Description	1 online resource (272 pages).
Series	Cultural Front Series
	Cultural front (Series)
Contents	Preface; I Employment in English; 1. Cultural studies and cultural capital; 2. The blessed of the earth; 3. Professional obligations and academic standards; 4. Peer pressure : political tensions in the bear market; 5. Straight outta normal : nonprofit fiction publishing on the margins; II Employing English; 6. English for employment; 7. Professional advocates : when is "advocacy" part of one's vocation?; 8. Free speech and discipline : the boundaries of the multiversity; 9 Extreme prejudice : the coarsening of American conservatism; 10. Cultural criticism and the politics of selling out.
Summary	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 En.
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Subject	English philology -- Study and teaching -- Political aspects -- United States.
	English literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
	English language -- Political aspects -- United States.
	English teachers -- Employment -- United States.
	Interdisciplinary approach in education.
	Language and culture -- United States.
	Literature.
	Language and languages.
	English language -- Political aspects. (OCoLC)fst00911524
	English literature -- Theory, etc. (OCoLC)fst01930851
	English philology -- Study and teaching -- Political aspects. (OCoLC)fst00912268
	English teachers -- Employment. (OCoLC)fst00912396
	Interdisciplinary approach in education. (OCoLC)fst00976122
	Language and culture. (OCoLC)fst00992135
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Other Form:	Print version: Bérubé, Michael F. Employment of English : Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies. New York : NYU Press, ©1997 9780814713006
ISBN	9780814723425 (electronic bk.)
	081472342X (electronic bk.)

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