Author: Gerald Graff
Publisher: University Of Chicago Pre
Keywords: twentieth, anniversary, history, institutional, literature, professing
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 2007-12-15
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0226305597
ISBN-13: 9780226305592

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 essenti

Author: Professor Gerald Graff
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: life, mind, obscures, schooling, academe, clueless
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2004-07-11
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0300105142
ISBN-13: 9780300105148

Our schools and colleges often make the intellectual life seem more impenetrable, narrowly specialized, and inaccessible than it is or needs to be, argues this eminent scholar and educator, whose provocative book offers a wealth of practical suggestions for making the culture of ideas and arguments more readily understandable.“Graff is reopening the door on a major debate. In the wake of theory, in the wake of feminism, post-colonial criticism and all the rest, what is a liberal arts education supposed to be about? How should teachers teach? What should students learn? Intelligently, humanel

Authors:Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstei,
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: writing, academic, matter, moves
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2006-01-10
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0393924092
ISBN-13: 9780393924091

Identifying the moves that matter in academic writing in ways that students can readily understand and apply. "They Say / I Say" shows that writing well means mastering some key rhetorical moves, the most important of which involves summarizing what others have said ("they say") to set up one’s own argument ("I say"). In addition to explaining the basic moves, this book provides writing templates that show students explicitly how to make these moves in their own writing.

Authors:Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein,
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: second, writing, academic, matter, moves
Number of Pages: 245
Published: 2009-12-22
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 039393361X
ISBN-13: 9780393933611

The book that demystifies academic writing, teaching students to frame their arguments in the larger context of what else has been said about their topic–and providing templates to help them make the key rhetorical moves. The best-selling new composition book published in this century, in use at more than 1,000 schools, They Say / I Say has essentially defined academic writing, identifying its key rhetorical moves, the most important of which is to summarize what others have said (“they say”) to set up one’s own argument (“I say”). The book also provides templates to help student

Authors:Jacques Derrida, Gerald Graff,
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Keywords: inc, limited
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1988-01-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0810107880
ISBN-13: 9780810107885

Authors:William Shakespeare, James D. Phelan, Gerald Graff,
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin’s
Keywords: critical, case, controversy, studies, study, tempest
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 2008-12-27
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0312457529
ISBN-13: 9780312457525

Designed for "teaching the conflicts," this critical edition of Shakespeare’s The Tempest reprints the authoritative Bevington text of the play along with 21 selections representing major critical and cultural controversies surrounding the work. The distinctive editorial material helps readers grapple not only with the play’s critical issues but also with cultural debates about literature itself. The second edition includes four new readings, revised headnotes that more helpfully contextualize the critical essays, a portfolio of visual representations of Caliban, and an appendix on writing

Author: Henry F. Graff
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
Keywords: history, reference, presidents
Number of Pages: 811
Published: 1997-11
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0684805510
ISBN-13: 9780684805511

This is a major reference work on the presidency.... Essential. (Library Journal) A welcome updating of a standard work ... An excellent reference. (Booklist) Now updated with articles on Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and the role of the First Lady. Paper1 volume