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The employment of English [electronic resource] : theory, jobs, and the future of literary studies / Michael Bérubé

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Project MUSE)
Main Author:	Bérubé, Michael, 1961-
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : New York University Press, ©1998.
Series:	Cultural front (Series)
Subjects:	English philology > Study and teaching (Higher) > 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. English language > Political aspects. English literature > Theory, etc. English philology > Study and teaching (Higher) > Political aspects. English teachers > Employment. Language and culture. United States. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

Cultural studies and cultural capital
The blessed of the earth
Professional obligations and academic standards
Peer pressure : political tensions in the bear market
Straight outta normal : nonprofit fiction publishing on the margins
English for employment
Professional advocates : when is "advocacy" part of one's vocation?
Free speech and discipline : the boundaries of the multiversity
Extreme prejudice : the coarsening of American conservatism
Cultural criticism and the politics of selling.