The Rise and Fall of English Reconstructing English as a Discipline
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- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
- Publish date: 03/01/1998
The book begins by examining the history of the rapid rise of English at two American universities -- Yale and Brown -- at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. Scholes argues that the subsequent fall of English -- discernible today in college English departments across the United States -- is the result of both cultural shifts and changes within the field of English itself. He calls for a fundamental reorientation of the discipline -- away from political or highly theoretical issues, away from a specific canon of texts, and toward a canon of methods, to be used in the process of learning how to situate, compose, and read a text. He offers an eloquent proposal for a discipline based on rhetoric and the teaching of reading and writing over a broad range of literatures, a discipline that includes literariness but is not limited to it.
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