The Crisis in the Humanities—What Would Shakespeare do
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20248409 |
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| Authors | Paul Yachnin (McGill University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 31 |
| Publication date | 2016-05-18 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2076-0787 • E-ISSN: 2076-0787 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/h5020031 |
| OpenAlex | W2399350799 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
In this essay, I turn to Shakespeare for advice about how to alleviate the crisis in the humanities. University faculty and PhD students develop what I’ve called a dispositional immobility, a disposition to do what they do only in an academic setting. I think humanities faculty and doctoral students can learn from Shakespeare a good deal about how to mobilize themselves and what they do as well as a lot about how to change the institution of the humanities, especially by following his practice of institution blending. Shakespeare, I will argue, can teach us how to move
Art · Digital humanities · Humanities · Institution · Pedagogy · Social science · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism · Theatre and Performance Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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