Engaging with Work in English Studies

An Issue-based Approach

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

Av Alastair Henry, Åke Persson, Ake Persson

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This edited book focuses on practices of work in late modern society, taking an ‘issue-based’ and interdisciplinary approach to English Studies which acknowledges the impact of globalization on the position of English in the daily existence of millions of people around the world.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-06-27
Mått148 x 210 x 16 mm
Vikt366 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor262
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030697228

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Chapter 1: Engaging with Work in Worlds of Change (Alastair Henry and Åke Persson).- Part One: Identities.- Chapter 2: ‘Imagine Being So Suddenly Useless’: Unemployment, Vulnerability and the Irish Financial Crash in Donal Ryan’s The Spinning Heart (Åke Persson).- Chapter 3: Authenticity at Work: English Teachers’ Experiences of Authentic and Inauthentic Acting (Alastair Henry and Sofia Olsén).- Chapter 4: ‘We Do No Harm, We Say What We Want, and We Get Paid for It’: Academic Work and Dignity in Stoner by John Williams (Celia Aijmer Rydsö).- Chapter 5: Working with Identity Work: Supporting Professional Identity Development in Teacher Education (Alastair Henry).- Part Two: Oppositions and Transformations.- Chapter 6: The Superhero and the Tiger Mom: Exploring the Relation Between Parental Expectations and Career Choices in Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew’s The Shadow Hero (Ulrika Andersson Hval).- Chapter 7: Changing English, Changing Challenges: The Work of TeachingEnglish in a Context of Diverse Experiences (Anna Elgemark and Maria Mollstedt).- Chapter 8: Interpreting Children’s Working Lives in James Joyce’s Ulysses (Barry Ryan).- Chapter 9: Global English in the Workplace: Workplace English as a Lingua Franca (WELF) and Successful WELF Users (Hyeseung Jeong).- Chapter 10: From ‘Mayday’ to #MeToo: Workplace Sexual Harassment in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments and The Heart Goes Last (Susanna Rokka).