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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ISBN
9780226305257
Publisert
2018
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University of Chicago Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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