Research Catalog

Title

Manifesto of a tenured radical / Cary Nelson.

Author

Nelson, Cary.

Publication

New York : New York University Press, c1997.

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Details

Description

vi, 243 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Cultural front

Uniform Title

Cultural front (Series)

Subject

• Education, Higher > Aims and objectives > United States
• English philology > Study and teaching (Higher) > United States
• Humanities > Study and teaching (Higher) > United States
• Critical pedagogy > United States
• Canon (Literature)
• College teachers > Tenure > United States
• Education, Higher > Political aspects > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-237) and index.

Contents

Against English as it was : theory and the politics of the discipline -- Multiculturalism without guarantees : from anthologies to the social text -- Relativism, politics, and ethics : writing literary history in the shadow of Poststructuralism -- Always already cultural studies : academic conferences and a manifesto -- Progressive pedagogy without apologies : the cultural work of teaching noncanonical poetry -- Canon fodder : an evening with William Bennett, Lynne Cheney, and Dinesh D'Souza -- Hate speech and political correctness -- What happens when we put the left at the center? -- Dichotomy is where the money is : anti-intellectualism within and outside the university -- Late capitalism arrives on campus : the corporate university's expendable employees -- What is to be done? : a twelve-step program for academia -- Reaction and resistance at Yale and the MLA : union organizing and the job market.

ISBN

• 0814757944 (clothbound : acid-free paper)
• 0814757979 (paperbound : acid-free paper)

LCCN

96051305

OCLC

• ocm36165105
• SCSB-8893875

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library