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English After the Fall
Robert Scholes
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Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 456.
Robert Scholes’s now classic Rise and Fall of English was a stinging indictment of the discipline of English literature in the United States. In English after the Fall, Scholes moves from identifying where the discipline has failed to providing concrete solutions that will help restore vitality and relevance to the discipline.
With the self-assurance of a master essayist, Scholes explores the reasons for the fallen status of English and suggests a way forward. Arguing that the fall of English as a field of study is due, at least in part, to the narrow view of “literature” that prevails in ... Read more
Robert Scholes’s now classic Rise and Fall of English was a stinging indictment of the discipline of English literature in the United States. In English after the Fall, Scholes moves from identifying where the discipline has failed to providing concrete solutions that will help restore vitality and relevance to the discipline.
With the self-assurance of a master essayist, Scholes explores the reasons for the fallen status of English and suggests a way forward. Arguing that the fall of English as a field of study is due, at least in part, to the narrow view of “literature” that prevails in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Iowa Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Iowa, United States
ISBN
9781609380557
SKU
V9781609380557
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About Robert Scholes
Robert Scholes is Research Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, where he directs the Modernist Journals Project. A past president of the MLA, he is author or editor of numerous books, including Semiotics and Interpretation, Textual Power, Protocols of Reading, The Rise and Fall of English, The Crafty Reader, Paradoxy of Modernism, Modernism in the Magazines, Fields ... Read more
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