{"product_id":"professing-literature-an-institutional-history-9780226305592","title":"Professing Literature: An Institutional History","description":"Widely 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. \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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-131584\"\u003eGerald Graff\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 340\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.91h x 6.02w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226305592\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226305597\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LIT\"\u003eLiterary Criticism\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LIT000000\"\u003eGeneral\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44442274693357,"sku":"9780226305592","price":53.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_5f2bb1db-7758-47be-a468-77702c953e2c.jpg?v=1700203823","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/professing-literature-an-institutional-history-9780226305592","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}