[...] the contingent character of the subject we call English. The very name
of the discipline, as Stefan Collini argues, is slippery with ambiguity,
‘an adjective masquerading as a noun’. What is the missing noun to
which English refers: literature, language or both? If both, does
English belong with the study of other modern languages and literatures?
Is its primary concern with literature in English or with the culture
of Englishness? Colin Kidd, London Review of Booksrecensione a: Stefan Collini, Literature and Learning: A History of English Studies in Britain (Oxford UP)
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