Politics and Value in English Studies - A Discipline in Crisis?

This 1993 book examines the impact of the 'theory industry' on English studies, and its implications for the future.

List of contents

1. Preliminaries; 2. The nature of disciplinary knowledge; 3. Authority and value; 4. Value in literary history; 5. Value in text-editing; 6. The discipline of English.

Summary

This 1993 book examines the ways in which the recent growth of the 'theory industry' in English studies has threatened its status as a discipline, and argues that the attempt by radical critics on both sides of the Atlantic to politicize English studies will have profound consequences.

Product details

• Authors: Josephine M. Guy, Ian Small, Small Ian
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.10.1993
• EAN: 9780521442534
• ISBN: 978-0-521-44253-4
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 420 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; English, Literary studies: general, Language: reference and general