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The Global Future of English Studies: Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos

Autor JF English
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 mar 2012
* The Global Future of English Studiespresents a succinct, carefully documented assessment of the current state and future trajectory of English studies around the world. * Compiles data on student enrollments, faculty hiring, and financing in English studies around the world including China, home to more English majors than the U.S. and U.K. combined * Rejects prevailing narratives of contraction and decline that dominate histories of the discipline * Stresses English studies' expansion within a rapidly expanding global academic apparatus, and the new challenges and opportunities such sudden and dispersive growth presents * Essential reading for anyone interested in studying or teaching English in higher education
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780470654941
ISBN-10: 0470654945
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Wiley
Seria Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos

Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Faculty and graduate students in English and Comparative Literature; educational historians; higher educational administrators; and general readers interested in education and globalization

Notă biografică

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.

Descriere

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.