English: the History of a Discipline 1920-70

这个项目的根本目的是改变和丰富我们对1920年至1970年间一场活跃的智力运动——学术文学批评的理解。在这一时期，英语（通常被称为英语）塑造了中学和大学的人文学科。它也改变了我们阅读文学作品的方式和原因。这个项目将提供学术研究仍然缺乏的东西：对这一时期的英语历史（包括澳大利亚的英语历史）进行详细的分析，对这一学科的影响以及导致它在20世纪70年代走上新道路的力量保持敏感。好处包括扩大学术和公众对这一丰富学科历史的认识，并为澳大利亚和国外的英语指明战略方向。

This project aims fundamentally to change and enrich our understanding of a dynamic intellectual movement—academic literary criticism between 1920 and 1970. During this period, English (as it was often called) shaped the humanities at both the secondary and tertiary level. It also changed how and why we read literature. This project will produce what the scholarship still lacks: a detailed, analytic account of the history of English in the period, including in Australia, sensitive to the discipline’s impact and to the forces which caused it to take new paths in the 1970s. Benefits include expanding academic and public awareness of this rich disciplinary history and informing strategic directions for English in Australia and abroad.