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010 _a 96028325
020 _a0691011559 (cloth : alk. paper)
035 _a(OCoLC)ocm35008188
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_bG46 1997
082 0 0 _a001.3/071/173
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100 _aKernan, Alvin B.
_913061
245 0 0 _aWhat's happened to the humanities? /
_cedited by Alvin Kernan.
260 _aPrinceton, N.J. :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_cc1997.
300 _aviii, 267 p. :
_bill. ;
_c25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _tForeword /
_rWilliam G. Bowen and Harold T. Shapiro --
_tIntroduction: Change in the Humanities and Higher Education /
_rAlvin Kernan --
_g1.
_tDemocratization and Decline? The Consequences of Demographic Change in the Humanities /
_rLynn Hunt --
_g2.
_tFunding Trends in the Academic Humanities, 1970-1995: Reflections on the Stability of the System /
_rJohn H. D'Arms --
_g3.
_tIgnorant Armies and Nighttime Clashes: Changes in the Humanities Classroom, 1970-1995 /
_rFrancis Oakley --
_g4.
_tEvolution and Revolution: Change in the Literary Humanities, 1968-1995 /
_rMargery Sabin --
_g5.
_tHumanities and the Library in the Digital Age /
_rCarla Hesse --
_g6.
_tThe Practice of Reading /
_rDenis Donoghue --
_g7.
_t"Beyond Method" /
_rGertrude Himmelfarb --
_g8.
_tChanging Epochs /
_rFrank Kermode --
_g9.
_tThe Pursuit of Metaphor /
_rChristopher Ricks --
_g10.
_tThe Demise of Disciplinary Authority /
_rLouis Menand --
_g11.
_tScholarship as Social Action /
_rDavid Bromrich --
505 8 0 _gAppendix.
_tTables and Figures on B.A.s and Ph.D.s in the Humanities, 1966-1993.
520 _aThis volume of specially commissioned original essays presents the thoughts of some of the most distinguished commentators within the American academy on the fundamental changes that have taken place in the humanities in the latter part of the twentieth century.
520 8 _aWhat the essays make clear, is that as the humanities have become less significant in American higher education, they have also been the scene of unusually energetic social, pedagogical, and intellectual changes. The essays do not center on whether the changes described have been for good or bad, or on what remedial actions might be taken to halt the decay of interest in the humanities, but on the nature and extent of the changes.
520 8 _aThe authors have opinions, of course, but they have focused on areas - demographics, patronage, books - where it is possible, if not to be entirely objective, at least to be sufficiently factual to discuss the issues meaningfully.
650 0 _aHumanities
_xStudy and teaching (Higher)
_zUnited States.
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650 0 _aHumanities
_xPhilosophy.
_913063
650 0 _aLearning and scholarship
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
_913064
700 1 _aKernan, Alvin B.
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900 _bTOC
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