1st Edition

The Critical Enterprise English Studies in Higher Education

By Raymond Cowell Copyright 1975
156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1975, The Critical Enterprise looks at how the expansion and diversification of English Studies was shaping and was shaped by the Higher Education curriculum. The book looks at how students of sixth forms, colleges, polytechnics and universities alike found an increasing emphasis on interdisciplinary studies and how this opened new ways of studying new subjects. The book... Read more

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: Simple Principles

1. The Experience of English Studies: The Word and the World

2. The Language of English Studies

3. English Studies and the Curriculum of Higher Education

Part II: Complete Embodiments and Miscellaneous Forms

4. Criticism and Creativity

5. Poetry

6. The Novel: Malamud’s The Assistant and Golding’s The Spire

7. Drama: Coriolanus, The Wild Duck, Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Conclusion

References

Select Bibliography

Index

Biography

Raymond Cowell