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The university system is no longer fit for purpose. UK higher
education was designed for much smaller numbers of students and a
very different labour market. Students display worrying levels of
mental health issues, exacerbated by unprecedented levels of debt,
and the dubious privilege of competing for poorly-paid graduate
internships. Meanwhile who goes to university is still too often
determined by place of birth, gender, class or ethnicity. Who are
universities for? argues for a large-scale shake up of how we
organise higher education, how we combine it with work, and how it
fits into our lives. It includes radical proposals for reform of
the curriculum and how we admit students to higher education, with
part-time study (currently in crisis in England) becoming the norm.
A short, polemical but also deeply practical book, Who are
universities for? offers concrete solutions to the problems facing
UK higher education and a way forward for universities to become
more inclusive and more responsive to local and global challenges.
Is 'Romeo and Juliet' really a love story, or is it a play about
young people living in dangerous circumstances? How might life
under occupation produce a new reading of 'Julius Caesar'? What
choices must a group of Palestinian students make, when putting on
a play which has Jewish protagonists? And why might a young
Palestinian student refuse to read? For five months at the start of
2013, Tom Sperlinger taught English literature at the Abu Dis
campus of Al-Quds University in the Occupied West Bank. In this
account of the semester, Sperlinger explores his students'
encounters with works from 'Hamlet' and 'The Yellow Wallpaper' to
Kafka and Malcolm X. By placing stories from the classroom
alongside anecdotes about life in the West Bank, Sperlinger shows
how his own ideas about literature and teaching changed during his
time in Palestine, and asks what such encounters might reveal about
the nature of pedagogy and the role of a university under
occupation.
Explores Doris Lessing's innovative engagement with historical
change in her own lifetime and beyondThe death of Nobel
Prize-winning Doris Lessing sparked a range of commemorations that
cemented her place as one of the major figures of twentieth- and
twenty-first-century world literature. This volume views Lessing's
writing as a whole and in retrospect, focusing on her innovative
attempts to rework literary form to engage with the challenges
thrown up by the sweeping historical changes through which she
lived. The 12 original chapters provide new readings of Lessing's
work via contexts ranging from post-war youth politics and radical
women's writing to European cinema, analyse her experiments with
genres from realism to autobiography and science-fiction, and draw
on previously unstudied archive material. The volume also explores
how Lessing's writing can provide insight into some of the issues
now shaping twenty-first century scholarship including trauma,
ecocriticism, the post-human, and world literature as they emerge
as defining challenges to our own present moment in history.Key
FeaturesOffers a critical overview of the full range of Lessing's
work, setting the agenda for future study of her writingProvides
new readings of an unprecedented range of Lessing's writing,
including previously unstudied archive material, landmark novels
such as The Golden Notebook, drama and reportage, essays, memoirs
and short storiesSituates Lessing in relation to new literary and
cultural contexts, including the nineteenth-century novel-series,
cinema, and post-war youth cultureRelates Lessing's work to
contemporary theoretical debates on post-humanism, trauma,
ecocriticism, radical women's writing and world literature
Explores Doris Lessing's innovative engagement with historical
change in her own lifetime and beyond The death of Nobel
Prize-winning Doris Lessing sparked a range of commemorations that
cemented her place as one of the major figures of twentieth- and
twenty-first-century world literature. This volume views Lessing's
writing as a whole and in retrospect, focusing on her innovative
attempts to rework literary form to engage with the challenges
thrown up by the sweeping historical changes through which she
lived. The 12 original chapters provide new readings of Lessing's
work via contexts ranging from post-war youth politics and radical
women's writing to European cinema, analyse her experiments with
genres from realism to autobiography and science-fiction, and draw
on previously unstudied archive material. The volume also explores
how Lessing's writing can provide insight into some of the issues
now shaping twenty-first century scholarship - including trauma,
ecocriticism, the post-human, and world literature - as they emerge
as defining challenges to our own present moment in history. Key
Features Offers a critical overview of the full range of Lessing's
work, setting the agenda for future study of her writing Provides
new readings of an unprecedented range of Lessing's writing,
including previously unstudied archive material, landmark novels
such as The Golden Notebook, drama and reportage, essays, memoirs
and short stories Situates Lessing in relation to new literary and
cultural contexts, including the nineteenth-century novel-series,
cinema, and post-war youth culture Relates Lessing's work to
contemporary theoretical debates on post-humanism, trauma,
ecocriticism, radical women's writing and world literature
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