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Professing Literature: An Institutional History

Professing Literature: An Institutional History

Graff, Gerald

Paperback

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0226305597
ISBN13: 9780226305592
Publisher: Univ Of Chicago Pr
Published: Oct 1 2007
Pages: 340
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.02 Depth: 8.91
Language: English
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.

Graff's history. . . is a pathbreaking investigation showing how our institutions shape literary thought and proposing how they might be changed.- The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism

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