The Two Cultures of English - Jason Maxwell

The Two Cultures of English

Literature, Composition, and the Moment of Rhetoric

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
256 Seiten
2019
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8232-8245-6 (ISBN)
29,90 inkl. MwSt
Examines the discipline of English in North American universities in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries with special attention directed toward the relationship between Rhetoric and Composition and literary theory.
The Two Cultures of English examines the academic discipline of English in the final decades of the twentieth century and the first years of the new millennium. During this period, longstanding organizational patterns within the discipline were disrupted. With the introduction of French theory into the American academy in the 1960s and 1970s, both literary studies and composition studies experienced a significant reorientation.

The introduction of theory into English studies not only intensified existing tensions between those in literature and those in composition but also produced commonalities among colleagues that had not previously existed. As a result, the various fields within English began to share an increasing number of investments at the same time that institutional conflicts between them became more intense than ever before.

Through careful reconsiderations of some of the key figures who shaped and were shaped by this new landscape—including Michel Foucault, Kenneth Burke, Paul de Man, Fredric Jameson, James Berlin, Susan Miller, John Guillory, and Bruno Latour—the book offers a more comprehensive map of the discipline than is usually understood from the perspective of either literature or composition alone.

Possessing a clear view of the entire discipline is essential today as the contemporary corporate university pushes English studies to abandon its liberal arts tradition and embrace a more vocational curriculum. This book provides important conceptual tools for responding to and resisting in this environment.

Jason Maxwell is Clinical Assistant Professor of English at the University at Buffalo. He is co-author, with Claire Colebrook, of Agamben (Polity, 2016).

Introduction, 1

1. On the Use and Abuse of Rhetoric in Composition and Theory, 23

2. Between Standardization and Serialization: Kenneth Burke, Fredric Jameson, and Radical Criticism in the Post-Fordist Era, 60

3. Mapping the Archival Turn in English Studies, 92

4. Toward an Aesthetics without Literature, 131

5. New Things, Old Things: Reading the Latourian Turn Symptomatically, 156

Coda: English Studies and the Uncertain Future, 193

Acknowledgments, 203

Notes, 205

Bibliography, 221

Index, 241

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Bildungstheorie
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Erwachsenenbildung
ISBN-10 0-8232-8245-7 / 0823282457
ISBN-13 978-0-8232-8245-6 / 9780823282456
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