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 literat...
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 provocative arguments raised by its initial publication, "Professing Literature" remains an essential history of literary pedagogy and a critical classic.
作者简介
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Gerald Graff is 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.
目录
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Preface Twenty Years Later
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: Humanist Myth
LITERATURE IN THE OLD COLLEGE: 1828-1876
2 The Classical College
3 Oratorical Culture and the Teaching of English
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Preface Twenty Years Later
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: Humanist Myth
LITERATURE IN THE OLD COLLEGE: 1828-1876
2 The Classical College
3 Oratorical Culture and the Teaching of English
4 The Investigators (1): The New University
5 The Investigators (2): The Origins of Literature Departments
6 The Generalist Opposition
7 Crisis at the Outset: 1890-1915
SCHOLARS VERSUS CRITICS:1915-1930
8 Scholars versus Critics: 1915-1930
9 Groping for a Principle of Order: 1930-1950
10 General Education and the Pedagogy of Criticism: 1930-1950
SCHOLARS VERSUS CRITICS: 1940-1965
11 History versus Criticism: 1940-1960
12 Modern Literature in the University: 1940-1960
13 The Promise of American Literature Studies
14 Rags to Riches to Routine
PROBLEMS OF THEORY: 1965-
15 Tradition versus Theory
Notes
Index
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amazing manifestation on literature and its institutional history.it speaks for itself as to profess a true professional literature,not in a distant tone,but rather a really intimate one.
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2 有用 不舍昼夜 2024-08-13 12:05:08 北京
极佳，一定要读英文版，光是引用的材料就够思考许久。对全面了解美国大学的文科教育、英文系的建制、现代文学研究和文学批评的学科定位、新批评的兴衰、文学理论带来的争议，都有极大帮助。很多困惑实际上可追溯到现代大学的体制问题，因为我们现在对文学和学术研究的理解，是很新的观念。白璧德的定位（以及吴宓），看完这书也变得更清楚了。很多19世纪和1960年之前的书，都值得好好读一下。这书提供了很好的阅读指南。
0 有用 红桃黑桃百利甜 2013-11-06 17:39:20
很多英文系的争论寻根溯源便make sense多了。
0 有用 温柔的鲸鱼 2012-03-07 15:00:05
amazing manifestation on literature and its institutional history.it speaks for itself as to profess a true professional literature,not in a distant tone,but rather a really intimate one.
0 有用 Serenity 2024-12-20 18:03:40 陕西
格局大，资料全，对文学作为学科和整个高等教育在美国的历史和定位都有扎实的论述，读完也对我自己用过或常用的学术方法有了更深的认识。核心观点是文学作为专业学科，应直面学科合法性与方法论方面的冲突，尽早给学生讲授冲突，而不是回避冲突以维持学科内部表面和平。另一惊喜发现是今天不论中外，搞教育的和搞人文学科的经常吐槽抱怨头疼的那些问题，在过去不到两百年的时间里都已经一轮一轮地重演n遍了，要想以史为鉴的话这书... 格局大，资料全，对文学作为学科和整个高等教育在美国的历史和定位都有扎实的论述，读完也对我自己用过或常用的学术方法有了更深的认识。核心观点是文学作为专业学科，应直面学科合法性与方法论方面的冲突，尽早给学生讲授冲突，而不是回避冲突以维持学科内部表面和平。另一惊喜发现是今天不论中外，搞教育的和搞人文学科的经常吐槽抱怨头疼的那些问题，在过去不到两百年的时间里都已经一轮一轮地重演n遍了，要想以史为鉴的话这书应该时不时翻翻… (展开)
1 有用 红河谷的莲儿 2016-12-24 00:00:20
写的是美国大学的事儿，标题完全没提美国二字，害得我白惊喜一场，这不是坑人是啥？