Who killed Shakespeare? : what's happened to English since the radical sixties

"Who Killed Shakespeare? is tangentially about Shakespeare; it is primarily about the current and future situations of English, cultural studies, the university, and society at large." Who killed Shakespeare? asks the world outside the university, convinced that something's rotten in the state of academia. Have English professors really tossed out the Bard to take up "theory" instead? After public relations disasters surrounding "political correctness", deconstruction, and the Social Text hoax it seems that everyone -- politicians, parents, and the press -- has something to say about what's wrong with the university. Patrick Brantlinger argues that critiques of the "university in ruins" are misdirected. Shakespeare, English, and the humanities in general are all being marginalized -- not by professors, but by an increasingly corporatized and career-oriented direction in higher education. This provocative look inside the ivory tower is required reading for anyone who thinks he or she knows what's at stake in the modern university. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: A View from the Ruins 2. Who Killed Shakespeare?: What's Happened to English since the Radical Sixties 3. English Departments as Heterotopias The Trouble with Paradise Utopia Dystopia Heterotopia 4. Antitheory and Its Antitheses: Rhetoric versus Ideology 5. How the New Historicism Grew Old (And Gained Its Tale) 6. Postcolonialism and Its Discontents Postcolonialism and Poststructuralism Postcolonialism and Postmodernism Postcolonialism and Posthistory Postcolonialism and Multiculturalism Postcolonialism and Cultural Studies 7. Between Liberalism and Marxism: The Populism of Cultural Studies 8. Informania U 9. Apocalypse 2001 or, What Happens after Posthistory? Notes Bibliography Index First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Patrick Brantlinger. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [219]-231) And Index.