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9780719056291

Rethinking the University : Leverage and Deconstruction

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  • ISBN13:

    9780719056291

  • ISBN10:

    0719056292

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 1999-07-02
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Summary

Rethinking the Universityexplores and develops key critical debates in the humanities--concerning postmodernism, New Historicism, political criticism, cultural studies, interdisciplinarity and deconstruction--in the context of the various crises facing academic institutions. Wortham's analysis of the characteristic features of today's university is guided by a close reading of important critics on the question of the institution itself.

Author Biography

Simon Wortham is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix
Introduction: Walking on two feet 1(20)
Part 1 Authorities
Van Gogh's shoes, or, does the university have two left feet?
21(28)
The `glasse' of majesty: reflections on new historicism and cultural materialism
49(24)
Part 2 Institutions
Excellence and division: the deconstruction of institutional politics
73(18)
Multiple submission and little scrolls of parchment: censorships, knowledge and the academy
91(30)
Part 3 Economies and exchanges
Bringing criticism to account: economy, exchange and cultural theory
121(27)
Surviving theory, `as if I[t] were dead'
148(22)
Conclusion: The art of memory 170(7)
Index of names 177

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