Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies

by Michael Bérubé

Book Overview

What sorts of cultural criticism are teachers and scholars to produce, and how can that criticism be "employed" in the culture at large?
In recent years, debates about the role and direction of English departments have mushroomed into a broader controversy over the public legitimacy of literary criticism. At first glance this might seem odd: few taxpayers and legislators care whether the nation's English professors are doing justice to the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B000UD9YXG
• ISBN13: 9780814713013
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"