English literature [electronic resource] : opening up the canon / edited by Leslie A. Fiedler and Houston A. Baker, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

English Institute.

Contributor:

Fiedler, Leslie A.

Baker, Houston A., Jr., 1943-

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

Selected papers from the English Institute. new series ; no. 4.

English Institute publications.

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Selected papers from the English Institute ; 1979, new ser., no. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--20th century--History and criticism--Congresses.

English literature.

English language--Foreign countries--Congresses.

English language.

Literature and society--Congresses.

Literature and society.

Language and culture--Congresses.

Language and culture.

English literature--History and criticism--Congresses--20th century--Foreign countries.

English language--Congresses.

Canon (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 161 p. )

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1981.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Introduction / Houston A. Baker, Jr.

English and the Dynamics of South African Creative Writing / Dennis Brutus

English in the Caribbean: Notes on Nation Language and Poetry / Edward Kamau Brathwaite

Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective / Leslie Marmon Silko

Literature as an Institution: The View from 1980 / Leslie A. Fiedler

English as an Institution: The Role of Class / H. Bruce Franklin

Stumbling on Melons: Sexual Dialectics and Discrimination in English Departments / Diana Hume George

Fat-Cheeks Hefted a Snake: On the Origins and Institutionalization of Literature / George Stade

The English Institute, 1979

The Program

Sponsoring Institutions and Registrants, 1979

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph