Kernan What's Happened to the Humanities?

Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6452-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 358, 276 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Kernan, Alvin B.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bowen, William G.

Shapiro, Harold T.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Introduction: Change in the Humanities and Higher Education 3

1 Democratization and Decline? The Consequences of Demographic Change in the Humanities 17

2 Funding Trends in the Academic Humanities, 1970-1995: Reflections on the Stability of the System 32

3 Ignorant Armies and Nighttime Clashes: Changes in the Humanities Classroom, 1970-1995 63

4 Evolution and Revolution: Change in the Literary Humanities, 1968-1995 84

5 Humanities and the Library in the Digital Age 107

6 The Practice of Reading 122

7 "Beyond Method" 143

8 Changing Epochs 162

9 The Pursuit of Metaphor 179

10 The Demise of Disciplinary Authority 201

11 Scholarship as Social Action 220

Appendix Tables and Figures on B.A.s and Ph.D.s in the Humanities, 1966-1993 245

About the Contributors 259

Index 261