Working in English - 9780802073501

Working in EnglishHistory, Institution, Resources\nAuthor(s): Heather Murray\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9780802073501, 978-0802073501\nSynopsis\nThis is an analysis of English studies in higher education, addressed in particular to practitioners in the field teachers and students. As Heather Murray states in her introduction, those who work in English are likely to have a stronger sense of critical history than of disciplinary history. She contends that, in order to understand and reform the discipline of English studies, it is necessary to shift the focus of examination down and back to look at ordinary and often taken-for-granted disciplinary practices (such as pedagogy), and to extend the historical frame. \nMurray begins with an examination of some important historical moments in the developments of the discipline in Canada: the appointment in 1889 of [url] Alexander as first professor of Ene