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Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 213 mm, Gewicht: 249 g

Reihe: Studies in Writing and Rhetoric

Watkins

A Taste for Language


Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8093-2931-1
Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 213 mm, Gewicht: 249 g

Reihe: Studies in Writing and Rhetoric

ISBN: 978-0-8093-2931-1
Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press


This is a personal history of English Studies in the twentieth century. 'This is a book about the American Dream as it has become embodied in the university in general and in the English department in particular', writes James Ray Watkins at the start of ""A Taste for Language: Literacy, Class, and English Studies"". In it, Watkins argues that contemporary economic and political challenges make elementary questions about literacy, language, literature, education, and class once again imperative, and require a clear understanding of the cultural ideals of English studies. A personal history of university-level English studies in the twentieth century, ""A Taste for Language"" combines biography, autobiography, and critical analysis to explore the central role of freshman English and literary studies in the creation and maintenance of the middle class. It tells a multi-generational story of the author and his father, intertwined with close reading of texts and historical analysis. The story moves from depression-era Mississippi, where the author's father was born, to a contemporary English department, where the author now teaches. Watkins looks not only at textbooks, scholars, and the academy but also at families and other social institutions. A rich combination of biography, autobiography, and critical analysis, ""A Taste for Language"" questions what purpose an education in English language and literature serves in the lives of the educated in a class-based society and whether English studies has become wholly irrelevant in the twenty-first century.

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James Ray Watkins is an online educator for the Art Institute of Pittsburgh Online Division and the Center for Talented Youth at Johns Hopkins University. His online journal is called Writing in the Wild.



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