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Jason Maxwell 
The Two Cultures of English 
Literature, Composition, and the Moment of Rhetoric

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The Two Cultures of English examines the academic discipline of English in the final decades of the twentieth century and the first years of the new millennium. During this period, longstanding organizational patterns within the discipline were disrupted. With the introduction of French theory into the American academy in the 1960s and 1970s, both literary studies and composition studies experienced a significant reorientation.
The introduction of theory into English studies not only intensified existing tensions between those in literature and those in composition but also produced commonalities among colleagues that had not previously existed. As a result, the various fields within English began to share an increasing number of investments at the same time that institutional conflicts between them became more intense than ever before.
Through careful reconsiderations of some of the key figures who shaped and were shaped by this new landscape—including Michel Foucault, Kenneth Burke, Paul de Man, Fredric Jameson, James Berlin, Susan Miller, John Guillory, and Bruno Latour—the book offers a more comprehensive map of the discipline than is usually understood from the perspective of either literature or composition alone.
Possessing a clear view of the entire discipline is essential today as the contemporary corporate university pushes English studies to abandon its liberal arts tradition and embrace a more vocational curriculum. This book provides important conceptual tools for responding to and resisting in this environment.

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Table des matières

Introduction , 1
1. On the Use and Abuse of Rhetoric in Composition and Theory, 23
2. Between Standardization and Serialization: Kenneth Burke, Fredric Jameson, and Radical Criticism in the Post-Fordist Era, 60
3. Mapping the Archival Turn in English Studies, 92
4. Toward an Aesthetics without Literature, 131
5. New Things, Old Things: Reading the Latourian Turn Symptomatically, 156
Coda : English Studies and the Uncertain Future, 193
Acknowledgments , 203
Notes , 205
Bibliography , 221
Index , 241

A propos de l’auteur

Jason Maxwell is Clinical Assistant Professor of English at the University at Buffalo. He is co-author, with Claire Colebrook, of Agamben (Polity, 2016).
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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 256 ● ISBN 9780823282470 ● Taille du fichier 1.5 MB ● Maison d’édition Fordham University Press ● Lieu New York ● Pays US ● Publié 2019 ● Édition 1 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 6726632 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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