"The authors shrewdly analyze the dangers posed by new wave, post-modern scholarship. Though the reader may not agree with all their assessments, their arguments are powerfully and judiciously marshaled and laid out in succinct, lucid prose... a highly eclectic volume, but a volume that should be read... by the reader interested in the intellectual, social and pedagogical changes sustained by the humanities in the closing years of this century."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "The forces that have buffeted the humanities are not entirely external to them, as most of the contributions acknowledge. The state of the humanities is, after all, related to the state of humanists."--James M. Morris, Wilson Quarterly "Kernan's contributors supply useful perspectives about the recent history of U.S. universities and their potential future, of particular interest to readers fascinated by university trends and the sometimes noisy battles within academe over the institutions' objectives and the meaning and value of the humanities."--Booklist

• ForewordIntroduction: Change in the Humanities and Higher Education31Democratization and Decline? The Consequences of Demographic Change in the Humanities172Funding Trends in the Academic Humanities, 1970-1995: Reflections on the Stability of the System323Ignorant Armies and Nighttime Clashes: Changes in the Humanities Classroom, 1970-1995634Evolution and Revolution: Change in the Literary Humanities, 1968-1995845Humanities and the Library in the Digital Age1076The Practice of Reading1227"Beyond Method"1438Changing Epochs1629The Pursuit of Metaphor17910The Demise of Disciplinary Authority20111Scholarship as Social Action220AppendixTables and Figures on B.A.s and Ph.D.s in the Humanities, 1966-1993245About the Contributors259Index261

"The authors shrewdly analyze the dangers posed by new wave, post-modern scholarship. Though the reader may not agree with all their assessments, their arguments are powerfully and judiciously marshaled and laid out in succinct, lucid prose... a highly eclectic volume, but a volume that should be read... by the reader interested in the intellectual, social and pedagogical changes sustained by the humanities in the closing years of this century."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "The forces that have buffeted the humanities are not entirely external to them, as most of the contributions acknowledge. The state of the humanities is, after all, related to the state of humanists."--James M. Morris, Wilson Quarterly "Kernan's contributors supply useful perspectives about the recent history of U.S. universities and their potential future, of particular interest to readers fascinated by university trends and the sometimes noisy battles within academe over the institutions' objectives and the meaning and value of the humanities."--Booklist

• ForewordIntroduction: Change in the Humanities and Higher Education31Democratization and Decline? The Consequences of Demographic Change in the Humanities172Funding Trends in the Academic Humanities, 1970-1995: Reflections on the Stability of the System323Ignorant Armies and Nighttime Clashes: Changes in the Humanities Classroom, 1970-1995634Evolution and Revolution: Change in the Literary Humanities, 1968-1995845Humanities and the Library in the Digital Age1076The Practice of Reading1227"Beyond Method"1438Changing Epochs1629The Pursuit of Metaphor17910The Demise of Disciplinary Authority20111Scholarship as Social Action220AppendixTables and Figures on B.A.s and Ph.D.s in the Humanities, 1966-1993245About the Contributors259Index261

"The authors shrewdly analyze the dangers posed by new wave, post-modern scholarship. Though the reader may not agree with all their assessments, their arguments are powerfully and judiciously marshaled and laid out in succinct, lucid prose... a highly eclectic volume, but a volume that should be read... by the reader interested in the intellectual, social and pedagogical changes sustained by the humanities in the closing years of this century."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "The forces that have buffeted the humanities are not entirely external to them, as most of the contributions acknowledge. The state of the humanities is, after all, related to the state of humanists."--James M. Morris, Wilson Quarterly "Kernan's contributors supply useful perspectives about the recent history of U.S. universities and their potential future, of particular interest to readers fascinated by university trends and the sometimes noisy battles within academe over the institutions' objectives and the meaning and value of the humanities."--Booklist

• ForewordIntroduction: Change in the Humanities and Higher Education31Democratization and Decline? The Consequences of Demographic Change in the Humanities172Funding Trends in the Academic Humanities, 1970-1995: Reflections on the Stability of the System323Ignorant Armies and Nighttime Clashes: Changes in the Humanities Classroom, 1970-1995634Evolution and Revolution: Change in the Literary Humanities, 1968-1995845Humanities and the Library in the Digital Age1076The Practice of Reading1227"Beyond Method"1438Changing Epochs1629The Pursuit of Metaphor17910The Demise of Disciplinary Authority20111Scholarship as Social Action220AppendixTables and Figures on B.A.s and Ph.D.s in the Humanities, 1966-1993245About the Contributors259Index261