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Jonson, Benjamin --- Marlowe, Christopher --- Myth in literature --- Renaissance --- Marlowe, Christopher, --- Jonson, Ben, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Renaissance - England --- Marlowe, Christopher, - 1564-1593 - Criticism and interpretation --- Jonson, Ben, - 1573?-1637 - Criticism and interpretation --- MARLOWE (CHRISTOPHER), 1564-1593 --- JONSON (BENJAMIN, DIT BEN), 1572-1637 --- MYTHES DANS LA LITTERATURE --- RENAISSANCE --- CRITIQUE ET INTERPRETATION --- ANGLETERRE --- Marlowe, Christopher, - 1564-1593 --- Jonson, Ben, - 1573?-1637

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Authors and patrons --- Theater --- Literary patrons --- History --- Shakespeare, William, --- James --- Stuart, House of. --- Stage history --- Relations with literary patrons. --- Relations with courts and courtiers. --- Relations with dramatists. --- Great Britain --- Court and courtiers --- James I, 1603-1625 --- Shakespeare, William --- To 1625 --- England --- 17th century --- Shakespeare, William, - 1564-1616 - Stage history - To 1625. --- Shakespeare, William, - 1564-1616 - Stage history - England. --- Great Britain - Court and courtiers - History - 17th century.

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This 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. In the transformation of American higher education from the university to the "demoversity," the humanities have become a less and less important part of education, a matter established by a statistical appendix and elaborated on in several of the essays. The individual essays offer close observations into how the humanities have been affected by declining academic status, by demographic shifts, by reductions in financial support, and by changing communication technology. They also explore the effect of these forces on books, libraries, and the phenomenology of reading in the age of images. When basic conditions change, theory follows, and several essays trace the appearance and effect of new relativistic epistemologies in the humanities. Social institutions change as well in such circumstances, and the volume concludes with studies of the new social arrangements that have developed in the humanities in recent years: the attack on professionalism and the effort to transform the humanities into the social conscience of academia and even of the nation as a whole.Cause and effect? Who can say? What the essays make clear, however, is that as the humanities have become less significant in American higher education, they have also been the scene of unusually energetic pedagogical, social, and intellectual changes.The contributors to the volume are David Bromwich, John D'Arms, Denis Donoghue, Carla Hesse, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Lynn Hunt, Frank Kermode, Louis Menand, Francis Oakley, Christopher Ricks, and Margery Sabin. Included is a substantial introduction by Alvin Kernan and an appendix of tables and figures showing baccalaureate and doctoral degrees over the years in various types of schools.Originally published in 1997.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Learning and scholarship --- Humanities --- Erudition --- Scholarship --- Civilization --- Intellectual life --- Education --- Learned institutions and societies --- Research --- Scholars --- History. --- Philosophy. --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- Philosophy --- History --- United States --- Humanities - Study and teaching (Higher) - United States. --- Learning and scholarship - United States - History. --- Humanities Study and teaching (Higher) --- Humanities United States

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In this delightful and candid memoir, Alvin Kernan recalls his life as a student, professor, provost, and dean during a distinguished career in some of higher education's most hallowed halls. With his customary wit and insight, Kernan recounts his experiences at Columbia, Williams, Oxford, Yale, and Princeton in the company of an array of fascinating colleagues. And he describes from an insider's point of view how colleges and universities in the second half of the twentieth century have been transformed in radical ways.Against the background of what it was like to work and teach in turbulent decades of change, Kernan details the broader educational battles in which he became embroiled. He discusses the struggle for equality of opportunity for women and minorities; the questioning of administrative and intellectual authority; the appearance of deconstructive types of theory; the technological shift from printed to electronic information; the politicization of the classroom; and much more. His vividly remembered account is not only a unique personal story, it is a thought-provoking history that brims with insight into what has been won and lost in the culture wars.

Education, Higher --- Educators --- Education --- Social Sciences --- History of Education --- Aims and objectives --- Biography --- Kernan, Alvin B.