Why is English Literature? [electronic resource] : Language and Letters for the Twenty-First Century /
Bonfiglio, T.author.
Why is English synonymous with literature in the United States? Bonfiglio contextualizes the rising hegemony of English within the anti-labor, anti-immigration, xenophobic, mercantile, militarist, and technocratic ideologies that arose in the US in the first half of twentieth century.
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""Cover""; ""Half-Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Part I English and the Languages                                       ""; ""1 Can Spanish Count As an English Course?                                                ""; ""2 A Tropology of Letters                               ""; ""Part II From ars liber to Modern Literatures                                                   ""; ""3 The Lost Continent: Grammar and Philology                                                  ""; ""4 Curricula vitae linguae                                ""
""5 Parity in the Early MLA                                """"6 Blindness and Hindsight: The Misprisions of Graff and Warner                                                                     ""; ""Part III The American Century                                    ""; ""7 Allophone and Alien                            ""; ""8 Martial Culture and the MLA                                    ""; ""Scholarship and empire: the rhetoric of WWI                                                  ""; ""Life without parole: the rhetoric of WWII                                                ""
""9 The Prison House of Languages                                      """"English only and segregated dorms (with free bussing)                                                            ""; ""Blindness and foresight: the retrospectives of the MLA                                                             ""; ""Conclusion: Language Needs New Language                                              ""; ""References                 ""; ""Index            ""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Why is English synonymous with literature in the United States? Bonfiglio contextualizes the rising hegemony of English within the anti-labor, anti-immigration, xenophobic, mercantile, militarist, and technocratic ideologies that arose in the US in the first half of twentieth century.
Literature—History and criticism.
Literature—Philosophy.
European literature.
America—Literatures.
Literary History.
Literary Theory.
European Literature.
North American Literature.