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Here are three ways into the subject—and out again:
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The point about ‘English’ as the name of a subject is that it is an adjective being made to serve as a noun. So ‘English’ is always pointing to an absence—the noun. Is the subject English literature, language, society, culture, people?
Colin Evans, English People: The Teaching and Learning of English (1993, p. 184).
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Clearly the proper study of literature is—everything else!
Peter Widdowson, ‘W(h)ither English?’ in Coyle et al. (1990, p. 1228).
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It would be more accurate to call the predominant activity of contemporary literary scholars other-disciplinary rather than interdisciplinary [...] what we need is more theoretical, historical and critical training in our own discipline.
Marjorie Garber, ‘It Must Change’ (2006) in Moran (2010, pp. 170–171)
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Pope, R. (2016). Interdiscipline English! A Series of Provocations and Projections. In: Hewings, A., Prescott, L., Seargeant, P. (eds) Futures for English Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-43180-6_14
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