by Gerald Graff (Author), Gerald Graff (Author)
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 340
Edition: 20th ed.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 18 Jan 2008
ISBN 10: 0226305597
ISBN 13: 9780226305592