Professing Literature: An Institutional History
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Professing Literature traces how literature departments in American universities came to be the way they are. Gerald Graff reconstructs the debates among teachers and critics over what literature should be taught and how, and shows that the disputes filling today's culture wars have older roots stretching back more than a century. Written as a lively and often amusing narrative, the book examines how institutions shape the study of books and suggests how they might change. This edition adds a new preface in which the author responds to the objections raised when the book first appeared.
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