| Title | : | Professing Literature |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Gerald Graff |
| Release | : | 2008-11-15 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Language Arts & Disciplines, Books, Professional & Technical, Education, Fiction & Literature, Literary Criticism |
| Size | : | 1165740 |
| 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 |
