James F. English

The Global Future of English Studies

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Produktbeschreibung

This illuminating manifesto presents a succinct, carefully documented assessment of the current state and likely future of English studies around the world. By treating the global trends and trajectories of English studies with respect to actual student enrollments, faculty employment, curricular emphases, and emergent subfields, James F. English not only challenges many of the standard narratives of the decline of English studies, but turns them on their ear. With remarkable clarity, he shows how English functions within a global higher educational enterprise of massive scale and increasing integration, a system that is growing unevenly but rapidly around the world, and effecting major shifts in the flows of cultural capital.

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The Global Future of English Studies presents a succinct,carefully documented assessment of the current state and futuretrajectory of English studies around the world.
Compiles data on student enrollments, faculty hiring, andfinancing in English studies around the world including China, hometo more English majors than the U.S. and U.K. combined
Rejects prevailing narratives of contraction and decline thatdominate histories of the discipline
Stresses English studies expansion within a rapidly expandingglobal academic apparatus, and the new challenges and opportunitiessuch sudden and dispersive growth presents
Essential reading for anyone interested in studying or teachingEnglish in higher education

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Manifestos
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 1A470654940
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 423g
• ISBN-13: 9780470654941
• ISBN-10: 0470654945
• Artikelnr.: 33868756

Autorenporträt

THE AUTHOR JAMES F. ENGLISH is Professor of English and the Director of the Penn Humanities Forum at the University of Pennsylvania. His books include Comic Transactions: Literature, Humor, and the Politics of Community in Twentieth-Century Britain (1994), The Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction (2005), and The Economy of Prestige: Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value, which was named Best Academic Book of 2005 by New York Magazine.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii PART I The Future
of English Enrollments: Massification and Global Demand 1 I Beyond Crisis 3
II Let's Do the Numbers 9 III Not a Bust but a Boom 27 PART II The Future
of English Professors: Efficiency versus Prestige in the Age of Global
Rankings 51 I The Economics of Massification 53 II Doing More with Less 57
III Demand for the Doctorate 65 IV Credentials Fever 76 PART III The Future
of the English Curriculum: Literary Studies in Its Global Aspect 105 I The
End of the Discipline as We Know It 107 II Language versus Literature 115
III China: English Plus, Literature Minus? 126 IV English Studies and
"Culture Studies" in Europe and Australia 141 V Creative Writing for a
Creative Economy 157 VI The Global English Major 172 MANIFESTO 189 Index
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Rezensionen

"At last, some good news! In this informative study, James English brings a much-needed sociological perspective to current debates on the state of literary studies. Embracing a global viewpoint and offering some eye-opening statistics, he persuasively shows why the future of English literature is far healthier and more hopeful than its doomsayers have predicted."
--Rita Felski, University of Virginia

"By shifting perspective on the discipline of English from a narrative of crisis and decline to the story of a globally transformed and expanding field, James English forces a radical revision of our understanding of what the discipline is and what it might be. Witty, learned, analytically rigorous, and cosmopolitan in its reach, this is the most important account of the state of the discipline currently available."
--John Frow, University of Melbourne

"This is an impassioned and timely defence of the academic study of English worldwide."
--Richard Todd, University of Leiden