Who Killed Shakespeare

1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-415-93010-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 581 g

Who killed Shakespeare? asks the world outside the university, convinced that something's rotten in the state of academia. Have English professors really tossed out the Bard to take up theory instead? After public relations disasters surrounding political correctness, deconstruction, and the Social Text hoax it seems that everyone-politicians, parents, and the press-has something to say about what's wrong with the university. Patrick Brantlinger argues that critiques of the university in ruins are misdirected. Shakespeare, English, and the humanities in general are all being marginalized-not by professors, but by an increasingly corporatized and career-oriented direction in higher education. 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brantlinger, Patrick

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Schulleitung, Schulentwicklung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Universitäten, Wissenschaftliche Akademien, Gelehrtengesellschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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 Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction and Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830-1914.