The employment of English
Subtitle: theory, jobs, and the future of literary studies
By: Michael Bérubé.
Series: Cultural front; Cultural front (Series)
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: English philology -- Study and teaching -- Political aspects -- United States; English literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; English language -- Political aspects -- United States; English teachers -- Employment -- United States; Interdisciplinary approach in education; English philology -- Vocational guidance; Language and culture -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-251) and index.
Table of contents: title: Cultural studies and cultural capital; title: The blessed of the earth; title: Professional obligations and academic standards; title: Peer pressure : political tensions in the bear market; title: Straight outta normal : nonprofit fiction publishing on the margins; title: English for employment; title: Professional advocates : when is "advocacy" part of one's vocation?; title: Free speech and discipline : the boundaries of the multiversity; title: Extreme prejudice : the coarsening of American conservatism; title: Cultural criticism and the politics of selling out. Works cited.