1/17/2024 0 Comments Macro management literary![]() ![]() As it transpired, eBooks and the printed codex negotiatedĪn uneasy marketplace modus vivendi, but traditional literary scholars and former eLitĮnthusiasts were slower to do likewise. Inevitable successor to print had served to polarize debate and made it harder to adopt StrategicĮrrors made by digital boosters in positing the digital as implacable rival and Ostensibly obsolete print medium, and had left many literary humanists with an activeĭistaste for digital triumphalism. Mid-1990s ‘death of the book’ĭiscourse had pitted an all-conquering ‘electronic literature’ (eLit) against an To the digital came freighted with heavy baggage. For literary studies in particular though, this turn Wholesale transformation of all aspects of contemporary western life since mainstreaming Logical pivot for the humanities, given information and communication technologies’ To admit, by 2020, that the doomsayers really did have a point ( Endgame, 2020).Īgainst this post-millennial background, engagement with the digital world seemed a Prognostications about its future, English scholars of even a more optimistic cast had ![]() In the face of travel bans and local lockdowns. To higher-education systems worldwide as revenue from international students collapsed This already precariousĭisciplinary status quo was then massively destabilized by the COVID-19 pandemic’s shock Same message via declining enrolments, while graduate students - surveying a parlousĪcademic job market - opted for other, presumably safer, careers. Undergraduates, voting with their feet, indirectly registered the Increasingly insisted that disciplines demonstrate their vocational utility and Universities’ political paymasters and research-funding bodies have Sense of a discipline in stasis was not only intellectual but also institutional -Įxistential even. Posturing, with talk of radical revisioning oddly transmuted into received wisdom. Once revolutionary modes of analysis had ossified into rote New-historicist, and queer theory in the academy seemed to have reached a point ofĭiminishing returns. Successive waves of structuralist, post-structuralist, Marxist, feminist, postcolonial, ![]() The energy and sense of liberation that had propelled Of ideology critique had played itself out as literary studies’ governing paradigm By the first decade of the new millennium, evidence was mounting that the ‘high theory’ ![]()
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