Attempts to unearth the ideas and debates that created the literature department as we know it. This book shows that various conflicts of our culture wars echo and recycle controversies over how literature should be taught. It also presents a history of literary pedagog... Lees meer.

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 th... Lees meer.

The Enchantment of English is a study of the teaching of English in Australian universities from its beginnings in the second half of the 19th century through to the 1960s and 1970s a period in which universities proliferated and diversified. Written from the belief t... Lees meer.

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Written from the belief that every discipline is enhanced by understanding the arguments made for its existence and the conditions in which it was established the author aims to help students and colleagues to think critically about the impact of institutional location... Lees meer.