Rethinking the University - Leverage and Deconstruction

Informationen zum Autor Simon Wortham is Professor of English at Kingston University Klappentext Rethinking the university explores and develops key critical debates in the humanities (concerning, for example, postmodernism, New Historicism, political criticism, cultural studies, interdisciplinarity and deconstruction), in the context of the various crises widely felt to be facing academic institutions. Zusammenfassung Rethinking the university explores and develops key critical debates in the humanities (concerning! for example! postmodernism! New Historicism! political criticism! cultural studies! interdisciplinarity and deconstruction)! in the context of the various crises widely felt to be facing academic institutions. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionPart one - authorities1. Van Gogh's shoes or, does the university have two left feet?2. The 'glasse' of majestyPart two - institutions3. Excellence and division: the deconstruction of institutional politics4. Multiple submissions and little scrolls of parchment: censorship, knowledge and the academyPart three - Economies and exchanges5. Bringing criticism to account: economy, exchange and cultural theory6. Surviving theory, 'as if (it) were dead'Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Simon Wortham, Wortham Simon
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.05.2012
• EAN: 9780719087851
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8785-1
• No. of pages: 188
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; universities, Higher education, tertiary education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher