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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
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
Language: en
Pages: 319
Pages: 319
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-10-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press
Gerald Graff argues that our schools and colleges make the intellectual life seem more opaque, narrowly specialized, and beyond normal learning capacities than
Language: en
Pages: 300
Pages: 300
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-06-29 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
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
Language: en
Pages: 336
Pages: 336
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987 - Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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
Language: en
Pages: 260
Pages: 260
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-06-15 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This timely book argues that the institutionalisation of literary theory, particularly within American and British academic circles, has led to a sterility of t