Who Killed Shakespeare - What's Happened to English Since the Radical Sixties

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

List of contents

1. Introduction: A View from the Ruins 2. Who Killed Shakespeare? What's Happened to English Since the Radical Sixties 3. English Departments as Heterotopias 4. Anti-Theory and Its Antithesis: Rhetoric vs. Ideology 5. How the New Historicism Grew Old (and Gained its Tale) 6. Postcolonialism and Its Discontents 7. Between Liberalism and Marxism: The Populism of Cultural Studies 8. Informania U 9. Apocalypse 2001: or, What Happens after Posthistory? 10. Works Citied

About the author

Patrick Brantlinger Rudy Professor of English at Indiana University. He is the author of several books, includingCrusoe's Footprints, published by Routledge. His other publications include Bread and Circuses,Fictions of State, The Reading Lesson: The Threat of MassLiteracy in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction and Ruleof Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism,1830-1914.

Summary

This provocative look inside the ivory tower is required reading for anyone who thinks he or she knows what's at stake in the modern university.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Brantlinger
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.07.2001
• EAN: 9780415930116
• ISBN: 978-0-415-93011-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Weight: 460 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare, Educational administration and organization, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Higher education, tertiary education