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Pages: 0
Authors: Gerald Graff
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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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
Clueless in Academe
Language: en
Pages: 319
Authors: Gerald Graff
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-10-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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Gerald Graff argues that our schools and colleges make the intellectual life seem more opaque, narrowly specialized, and beyond normal learning capacities than
India Against Itself
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: Sanjib Baruah
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-06-29 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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In an era of failing states and ethnic conflict, violent challenges from dissenting groups in the former Yugoslavia, the former Soviet Union, several African co
Professing Literature
Language: en
Pages: 336
Authors: Gerald Graff
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987 - Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press

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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
Literature Against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Mark Edmundson
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-06-15 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This timely book argues that the institutionalisation of literary theory, particularly within American and British academic circles, has led to a sterility of t