Professing Literature – An Institutional History, Twentieth Anniversary Edition
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- ISBN 9780226305592
- Weight: 502g
- Dimensions: 153 x 227mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2007
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Gerald Graff is professor of English and education at the University of Illinois at Chicago and will be the president of the Modern Language Association in 2008.
