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Professing Literature
Gerald Graff
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Description for Professing Literature
Paperback. Attempts to unearth the ideas and debates that created the literature department as we know it. This book shows that various conflicts of our culture wars echo and recycle controversies over how literature should be taught. It also presents a history of literary pedagogy and a critical classic. Num Pages: 340 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; HBT; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 484.
Widely considered the standard history of the profession of literary studies, "Professing Literature" unearths the long-forgotten ideas and debates that created the literature department as we know it today. In a readable and often-amusing narrative, Gerald Graff shows that the heated conflicts of our recent culture wars echo - and often recycle - controversies over how literature should be taught that began more than a century ago. Updated with a new preface by the author that addresses many of the provocative arguments raised by its initial publication, "Professing Literature" remains an essential history of literary pedagogy and a critical classic. ... Read more
Widely considered the standard history of the profession of literary studies, "Professing Literature" unearths the long-forgotten ideas and debates that created the literature department as we know it today. In a readable and often-amusing narrative, Gerald Graff shows that the heated conflicts of our recent culture wars echo - and often recycle - controversies over how literature should be taught that began more than a century ago. Updated with a new preface by the author that addresses many of the provocative arguments raised by its initial publication, "Professing Literature" remains an essential history of literary pedagogy and a critical classic. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
Number of Pages
340
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226305592
SKU
V9780226305592
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About Gerald Graff
Gerald Graff is professor of English and education at the University of Illinois at Chicago and will be the president of the Modern Language Association in 2008.
Reviews for Professing Literature
"Both E. D. Hirsch and Allan Bloom share...a nostalgia for a not very closely examined past in which things were better. Gerald Graff's Professing Literature is extremely important, partly because it tells us a good deal about the realities of this supposedly better time....Graff's book is more consequential than Bloom's because it addresses the pedagogical questions and situates them in ... Read more