Manifesto of a tenured radical Cary Nelson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nelson, Cary.

Series:

Cultural front (Series)

Cultural front

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanities--Study and teaching (Higher).

Humanities.

English philology--Study and teaching (Higher).

English philology.

Education, Higher--Political aspects.

Education, Higher.

Education, Higher--Aims and objectives.

Critical pedagogy.

College teachers--Tenure.

College teachers.

Canon (Literature).

Education, Higher--Political aspects--United States.

College teachers--Tenure--United States.

Critical pedagogy--United States.

Humanities--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.

English philology--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.

Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--United States.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 243 p. )

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In an age when innovative scholarly work is at an all-time high, the academy itself is being rocked by structural change. Funding is plummeting. Tenure increasingly seems a prospect for only the elite few. Ph.D.'s are going begging for even adjunct work. Into this tumult steps Cary Nelson, with a no- holds-barred account of recent developments in higher education. Eloquent and witty, Manifesto of a Tenured Radical urges academics to apply the theoretical advances of the last twenty years to an analysis of their own practices and standards of behavior. In the process, Nelson offers a devastating critique of current inequities and a detailed proposal for change in the form of A Twelve-Step Program for Academia.

Contents:

Against English as it was : theory and the politics of the discipline

Multiculturalism without guarantees : from anthologies to the social text

Relativism, politics, and ethics : writing literary history in the shadow of Poststructuralism

Always already cultural studies : academic conferences and a manifesto

Progressive pedagogy without apologies : the cultural work of teaching noncanonical poetry

Canon fodder : an evening with William Bennett, Lynne Cheney, and Dinesh D'Souza

Hate speech and political correctness

What happens when we put the left at the center?

Dichotomy is where the money is : anti-intellectualism within and outside the university

Late capitalism arrives on campus : the corporate university's expendable employees

What is to be done? : a twelve-step program for academia

Reaction and resistance at Yale and the MLA : union organizing and the job market.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780814759271

0814759270

9780585330754

0585330751

OCLC:

45844045