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The global future of English studies / James F. English.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- English, James F., 1958-
- Series:
- Blackwell manifestos.
- Blackwell manifestos
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Study and teaching.
- English language.
- Globalization--Social aspects.
- Globalization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (220 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Global Future of English Studiespresents a succinct, carefully documented assessment of the current state and future trajectory of English studies around the world.Compiles data on student enrollments, faculty hiring, and financing in English studies around the world including China, home to more English majors than the U.S. and U.K. combinedRejects prevailing narratives of contraction and decline that dominate histories of the disciplineStresses English studies' expansion within a rapidly expanding global academic apparatus, and the new challenges and opportunit
- Contents:
- The Global Future of English Studies; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I: The Future of English Enrollments: Massification and Global Demand; Beyond Crisis; Let's Do the Numbers; Not a Bust but a Boom; Part II: The Future of English Professors: Efficiency versus Prestige in the Age of Global Rankings; The Economics of Massification; Doing More with Less; Demand for the Doctorate; Credentials Fever; Part III: The Future of the English Curriculum: Literary Studies in Its Global Aspect; The End of the Discipline as We Know It; Language versus Literature
- China: English Plus, Literature Minus?"Culture Studies" in Europe and Australia; Creative Writing for a Creative Economy; The Global English Major; MANIFESTO; Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613615893
- 9781119944652
- 1119944651
- 9781280586064
- 1280586060
- 9781119944676
- 1119944678
- 9781119944645
- 1119944643
- OCLC:
- 779166228
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