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Professing Literature : An Institutional History, Twentieth Anniversary Edition by Gerald Graff is a education title available to read on EtoBox.
What is Professing Literature : An Institutional History, Twentieth Anniversary Edition about?
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 p
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It is typically read by teachers and faculty preparing courses and curriculum.
Common subject areas: education, pedagogy.
- Author
- Gerald Graff
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226305592
- Category
- education
- Subjects
- History, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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