At Fault: Joyce and the Crisis of the Modern University

by Sebastian D G Knowles and Sebastian D.G. Knowles

Book Overview

At Fault is an exhilarating celebration of risk-taking in the work of James Joyce. Esteemed Joyce scholar and teacher Sebastian Knowles critiques the state of the modern American university, denouncing what he sees as an accelerating trend of corporatization that is repressing discussions of controversial ideas and texts in the classroom. Arguing that Joyce offers the antidote to risk-averse attitudes in higher education, he shows how the modernist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813068487
• ISBN13: 9780813068480
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"