Pedagogic Criticism Reconfiguring University English Studies
This book argues that the history of English Studies is embedded in its classroom practice, and its practice in its history. Some of its foundational struggles are still being lived out today. English is characterized as a ‘boundary’ subject, active in di
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Ben Knights
Pedagogic Criticism Reconfiguring University English Studies
Ben Knights Teesside University Middlesbrough, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-1-137-27812-8 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-27813-5
ISBN 978-1-137-27813-5 (eBook)
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In fond and loving memory of my father, Lionel (L.C.) Knights 1906–97 Teacher and literary critic
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Grounded in a teaching career of some forty years, this book has run up innumerable debts of gratitude to colleagues and students alike. If it were not for the rich environments they sustained, for their support, and for countless discussions and negotiations, this book would not exist. I count myself fortunate to have spent the earlier phases of my career in largely collaborative environments, and before the cultural revolution of competitive league tables, jealously guarded intellectual property, and REF-able outputs extended its grisly hold on British higher education. If I concentrate here on more recent acknowledgements, that does not imply any lesser degree of gratitude to colleagues and students in the Durham University Department of Adult and Continuing Education, or to colleagues across the continuing education networks. But Tim Bond, Richard Smith, and Bill Williamson have remained staunch supporters and I am
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