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The humanities crisis and the future of literary studies

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The humanities crisis and the future of literary studiesPaul Jay.
Author:	Jay, Paul,
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan,2014.
Description:	224 p.
Notes:	Electronic book text.
Notes:	Epublication based on: 9781137403308, 2014.
Subject:	Education, HigherPhilosophy.
Online resource:	Online journal 'available contents' page
ISBN:	1137398035

The humanities crisis and the future of literary studies
Jay, Paul,1946-

The humanities crisis and the future of literary studies[electronic resource] /Paul Jay. - 1st ed. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan,2014. - 224 p.

Electronic book text.

1. The Humanities Crisis Then and Now 2. Professionalism and Its Discontents 3. Humanism, the Humanities, and Political Correctness 4. Getting to the Core of the Humanities, or Who's Afraid of Gloria Anzaldua? 5. Aesthetics, Close Reading, Theory, and the Future of Literary Studies 6. The Humanities and the Public Sphere in the Age of the Internet.

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Demonstrating that the supposed drawbacks of the humanities are in fact their source of practical value, Jay explores current debates about the role of the humanities in higher education, puts them in historical context, and offers humanists and their supporters concrete ways to explain the practical value of a contemporary humanities education.The Humanities Crisis and the Future of Literary Studies explores the idea that the humanities seem to be in a perpetual state of crisis. Students and parents worry they serve no practical purpose, while many who endorse their cultural value complain an over-professionalized faculty preoccupied with esoteric theories and political agendas has left them compromised. Jay argues both concerns are misplaced. He insists the humanities do teach students a set of useful skills, and that they are most effectively taught in courses that stress theoretical thinking, sensitivity to social justice, and the ability to use scholarly and critical methodologies. Focusing on the field of literary studies, Jay argues that the value of the humanities must be framed in a balanced way that stresses both the importance of the cultural knowledge they embody, and the utility of the transferable skills they teach. The real humanities crisis is not intellectual but budgetary, and it can be opposed most effectively by taking a multifaceted approach to explaining their value in twenty-first century higher education.

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Paul Jay is Professor of English and Fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Thinking at Loyola University Chicago, USA.

ISBN: 1137398035

CODEN: nam a22003732a 4500Subjects--Topical Terms:

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LC Class. No.: AZ182

Dewey Class. No.: 001.30711

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