Related Books

Professing Literature
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: Gerald Graff
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-11-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Widely considered the standard history of the profession of literary studies, Professing Literature unearths the long-forgotten ideas and debates that created t
Professing Literature
Language: en
Pages: 336
Authors: Gerald Graff
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987 - Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A paper reprint of the 1987 original in which Graff (humanities and Egnlish, Northwestern University) traces the history of the rise and development of academic
Professing Performance
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: Shannon Jackson
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-04-08 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Today's academic discourse is filled with the word 'perform'. Nestled amongst a variety of prefixes and suffixes (re-, post-, -ance, -ivity?), the term function
Professing Feminism
Language: en
Pages: 466
Authors: Daphne Patai
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Lexington Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In this new and expanded edition of their controversial 1994 book, the authors update their analysis of what's gone wrong with Women's Studies programs. Their t
Literature Against Itself
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Gerald Graff
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The first and still one of the best critiques of post-1960s cultural radicalism, analyzing why and how the defenders of literature have gone wrong. "A wonderful