{"product_id":"professing-literature-an-institutional-history-paperback","title":"Professing Literature: An Institutional History - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGerald Graff\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWidely considered the standard history of the profession of literary studies, \u003ci\u003eProfessing Literature\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Updated with a new preface by the author that addresses many of the provocative arguments raised by its initial publication, \u003ci\u003eProfessing Literature\u003c\/i\u003e remains an essential history of literary pedagogy and a critical classic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Graff's history. . . is a pathbreaking investigation showing how our institutions shape literary thought and proposing how they might be changed.\"- \u003ci\u003eThe Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGerald Graff \u003c\/b\u003eis professor of English and education at the University of Illinois at Chicago and has been elected to serve as the President of the Modern Language Association in 2008.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 340\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 8.91 x 6.02 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42724603920447,"sku":"9780226305592","price":69.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/255f68dc41c194c5befea4b4a7a98c55_d92cbd53-1ece-44a1-b98d-2988d074cf91.webp?v=1765103250","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/professing-literature-an-institutional-history-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}