Working in English : : History, Institution, Resources / / Heather Murray.

This is an analysis of English studies in higher education, addressed in particular to practitioners in the field – teachers and students. As Heather Murray states in her introduction, those who work in English are likely to have a stronger sense of critical history than of disciplinary history. She...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction: Working in English
  • Part I: History
  • 2. The Appointment of W.J. Alexander
  • 3. 'We Strive for the Good and the Beautiful': Literary Studies at the Margaret Eaton School of Literature and Expression
  • 4. Resistance and Reception: Backgrounds to Theory in English Canada
  • Part II: Institution
  • 5. Women in English
  • 6. Close Reading, Closed Writing
  • 7. From Canon to Curriculum
  • 8. Reading Readers
  • 9. Charisma and Authority in Literary Study and Theory Study
  • 10. Does Controversy Have a Rhetoric?
  • Part III: Resources
  • 11. English Studies in Canada to 1945: A Bibliographic Essay
  • 12. English Studies in Canada, 1945-1991: A Handlist
  • Index