Who Killed Shakespeare
eBook - ePub

Who Killed Shakespeare

What's Happened to English Since the Radical Sixties

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Who Killed Shakespeare

What's Happened to English Since the Radical Sixties

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781136743405
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. 1. Introduction: A View from the Ruins
  9. 2. Who Killed Shakespeare?: What’s Happened to English since the Radical Sixties
  10. 3. English Departments as Heterotopias
  11. 4. Antitheory and Its Antitheses: Rhetoric versus Ideology
  12. 5. How the New Historicism Grew Old (And Gained Its Tale)
  13. 6. Postcolonialism and Its Discontents
  14. 7. Between Liberalism and Marxism: The Populism of Cultural Studies
  15. 8. Informania U
  16. 9. Apocalypse 2001 or, What Happens after Posthistory?
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index