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Robert ScholesPublication Details
BookYale University Press1998Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PE68.U5 S35 1998 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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English majors and literary critics take note! Critical of literary theory occupying center stage in the teaching of university English, Professor Robert Scholes adopts “a militant middle position on many of the questions that currently vex English studies.” He ponders, for example, why English departments are regarded as responsible for teaching all possible kinds of writing, from the scientific and technical to the literary. The Rise and Fall of English represents a powerful marriage of the past, providing a fascinating, if sweeping portrait of early American higher education, in brash juxtaposition with current attacks on the humanities. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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- Ch. 1. The Rise of English in Two American Colleges
- Assignment one: My Life in Theory
- Ch. 2. "No dog would go on living like this"
- Assignment two: Theory in the Classroom
- Ch. 3. What Is Becoming an English Teacher? - - Assignment three: "So Happy a Skill"
- Ch. 4. A Flock of Cultures: A Trivial Proposal
- Assignment four: Pacesetter English
- Ch. 5. A Fortunate Fall?
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- 0300071515
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