Professing Literature An Institutional History, Twentieth Anniversary Edition

Name: Professing Literature An Institutional History, Twentieth Anniversary Edition
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ISBN: 9780226305592

ISBN-10: 0226305597

ISBN-13: 9780226305592

Edition: 20th 2007 (Anniversary)

Authors: Gerald Graff

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Widely considered the standard history of the profession of literary studies,Professing Literatureunearths 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 Literatureremains an essential history of literary pedagogy and a critical classic. “Graff’s history. . . is a pathbreaking…

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List price: $34.00
Edition: 20th
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 340
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.90" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English

Gerald Graff is a professor of English and education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of several books including Professing Literature: An Institutional History, Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education, and Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind.



Preface Twenty Years Later


Acknowledgments



Introduction: The Humanist Myth


Literature in the Old College: 1828-1876



The Classical College



Oratorical Culture and the Teaching of English


The Early Professional Era: 1875-1915



The Investigators (1): The New University



The Investigators (2): The Origins of Literature Departments



The Generalist Opposition



Crisis at the Outset: 1890-1915


Scholars versus Critics: 1915-1950



Scholars versus Critics: 1915-1930



Groping for a Principle of Order: 1930-1950



General Education and the Pedagogy of Criticism: 1930-1950


Scholars versus Critics: 1940-1965



History versus Criticism: 1940-1960



Modern Literature in the University: 1940-1960



The Promise of American Literature Studies



Rags to Riches to Routine


Problems of Theory: 1965-



Tradition versus Theory


Notes


Index