Professing Literature: An Institutional History

by Graff, Gerald
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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

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Graff, Gerald
  • ISBN: 9780226305592
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.91 x 0.81
  • Number Of Pages: 340
  • Publication Year: 2007
Language: English

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