Who Killed Shakespeare

What's Happened to English Since the Radical Sixties

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Patrick Brantlinger

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Who killed Shakespeare? asks the world outside the university, convinced that something's rotten in the state of academia. Have English professors really tossed out the Bard to take up 'theory' instead? After public relations disasters surrounding 'political correctness', deconstruction, and the Social Text hoax it seems that everyone - politicians, parents, and the press - has something to say about what's wrong with universities. Patrick Brantlinger argues that critiques of the 'university in ruins' are misdirected. Shakespeare, English, and the humanities in general are all being marginalized - not by professors, but by an increasingly corporatized and career-oriented direction in higher education. This provocative look inside the ivory tower is required reading for anyone who thinks he or she knows what's at stake in the modern university.

Author Biography:

Patrick Brantlinger Rudy Professor of English at Indiana University. He is the author of several books, includingCrusoe's Footprints, published by Routledge. His other publications include Bread and Circuses,Fictions of State, The Reading Lesson: The Threat of MassLiteracy in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction and Ruleof Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism,1830-1914.

Release date Australia

July 23rd, 2001

Author

Patrick Brantlinger

Pages

248

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Dimensions

152x229x18

ISBN-13

9780415930116

Product ID

5250512

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