Professing Literature – An Institutional History, Twentieth Anniversary Edition (Paperback, 12th anniversary ed)

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"

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2007
First published:	October 2007
Authors:	Gerald Graff
Dimensions:	227 x 153 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	340
Edition:	12th anniversary ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-30559-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General Promotions
LSN:	0-226-30559-7
Barcode:	9780226305592

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