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The Humanities Crisis and the Future of Literary Studies

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Description for The Humanities Crisis and the Future of Literary Studies Paperback. Demonstrating that the supposed drawbacks of the humanities are in fact their source of practical value, Jay explores current debates about the role of the humanities in higher education, puts them in historical context, and offers humanists and their supporters concrete ways to explain the practical value of a contemporary humanities education. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: D; JNA; JNF; JNM; JNU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Demonstrating that the supposed drawbacks of the humanities are in fact their source of practical value, Jay explores current debates about the role of the humanities in higher education, puts them in historical context, and offers humanists and their supporters concrete ways to explain the practical value of a contemporary humanities education.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
Number of Pages
210
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349486960
SKU
V9781349486960
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About P. Jay
Paul L. Jay is Professor of English at Loyola University Chicago, USA.

Reviews for The Humanities Crisis and the Future of Literary Studies
"What the world needs now is a defense of the humanities that puts the past thirty or forty years of literary criticism and theory front and center. Seriously. All too often, when scholars in the humanities try to explain their work to a skeptical or curious public, they revert to the anodyne language of the liberal arts brochure, as if ... Read more

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