books by Gerald Graff     books:       Literature Against Itself: Literary Ideas in Modern Society1 review Gerald Graff Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 1995 An outstanding book about literary theory This is an outstanding book about literary theory and the academy. A professor of mine recommended it to me as an undergraduate, along with Terry Eagleton's Literary Theory: An Introduction, and I found this one to be the more interesting, the more original, of the two. It is at once a history and a critique and has much to offer students and scholars alike. Unfortunately, Graff seems to have ...             Black Planet: Facing Race during an NBA Season22 reviews David Shields Bison Books, 2006 A sports book for intellectuals Remote is an intelligent exploration of the deeper meanings of basketball. David Shields follows the Seattle Sonics during the '94-'95 season, commenting not only on the dynamics of play but also on issues of race and our need for the other, for transcendence from our lives through sports fandom. So compelling is Shield's case for an intellectual take on basketball that I, a nonsportsfan type, ...             They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing21 reviews Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein W. W. Norton, 2005 And I say... This book is full of templates and models of writing arguments. It's very helpful for anyone to learn these skills even though it was meant for college students; in fact, I really see it as being more helpful to teach high school (upper school) students these styles.             English in America: A Radical View of the Profession Richard M. Ohmann Wesleyan, 1996 A reissue of a controversial analysis of the literature profession.             Professing Literature: An Institutional History, Twentieth Anniversary Edition Gerald Graff University Of Chicago Press, 2007 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 ...             Limited Inc4 reviews Jacques Derrida Northwestern University Press, 1988 Who's serious? "Let's be serious" Derrida writes. Then four paragraphs later he writes it again. Then several pages later again. What is the effect of this textual trope? It gives the reader the feeling that what Derrida has been writing, reasoning and arguing up to that point has not been "serious". And that means, it can't be philosophy, for philosophy concerns "serious" issues right? But all the while, ...             Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind4 reviews Gerald Graff Yale University Press, 2004 Great for parents, teachers, and professors This is the book on learning in the classroom that I've been waiting for. So often, even interested students don't get what their teacher wants. When this happens, they can lose confidence in their native abilities and teachers become frustrated in themselves and their students. With Gerald Graff's guidance, teachers can now demistify their expectations while validating their students' ...             They Say/I Say: The Moves that Matter in Persuasive Writing5 reviews Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein W. W. Norton, 2007 A must have for anyone who needs to write an effective essay! This simply stated reference book gives details in concise writing techniques that I used from the first time I opened the book! My collegiate career would have been easier if I'd had this before I became a senior - what an awesome find - recommended by a peer.             The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Case Studies in Critical Controversy) Mark Twain Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003 Like its popular predecessor, this critical edition is designed for "teaching the conflicts" surrounding Mark Twain?s classic novel. It reprints the 1885 text of the first American edition (with a portfolio of illustrations) along with critical essays representing major critical and cultural controversies surrounding the work. The novel and essays are supported by distinctive editorial material ? including introductions to critical conflict ...             The Tempest (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)39 reviews William Shakespeare Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000 Excellent activity based edition The Tempest is rightly regarded as being one of the Bard's greatest works, containing some of his deepest thoughts on the nature of power and the relationship between rational man as controller of nature, and the animal man always to be at the mercy of the passions both of himself, others, and the world around him. In fact, this play could be thought of as representing Shakespeare's final and ...             Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education1 review Gerald Graff W W Norton & Co Inc, 1992 An Unnecessary War When Jacques Derrida announced to what he saw as a patriarchal Western-based hegemony that the very basis of a two millennia tradition of belief in the essential goodness and regularity of the human soul was a fiction, it did not take long for the ripples to filter down into America's schools. The culprit that Derrida saw was nothing less than the Western illusion that paradox, ambiguity, and ...             The Tempest: A Case Study in Critical Controversy (Case Studies in Critical Controversy) William Shakespeare Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008 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 ...             The Tempest (A Case Study in Critical Controversy)1 review William Shakespeare Palgrave Macmillan, 2000 Exploring controversy This book reveals a lot about the controversies surrounding Shakespeare's play, The Tempest. The authors discuss the various ways in which the play is interpreted and how to teach it in the context of these different views. In this case study, two main views are presented. One is traditional and timeless, while the other is more radical and contemporary. The traditional scholars want to ...             Professing Literature: An Institutional History2 reviews Gerald Graff University Of Chicago Press, 1989 Clear, concise, comprehensive This detailed history of the rise of English departments in the U. S. is lucid, cogently argued, and replete with quotes from primary sources. By detailing the arguments over how (and, in the very beginning, whether) English should be taught, from the pre-English department days of the early nineteenth century into the 1960s, Graff takes the reader decade by decade through the controversies ...             Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Case Study in Critical Controversy (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)511 reviews Mark Twain, Gerald Graff Bedford Books, 1995 Great book! When addressing controversy think of context. I can't say more on the plot because it's quite obvious what the plot is just from illustrations of the novel. But on the "controversial" aspect of the novel involving the excessive use of the N word, people have to think of the time period that Twain is writing about and when the novel was published. The novel takes place in Missouri (a slave border state) in the 1830s. We use the term ...             Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism) Mark Twain Palgrave Macmillan, 2004 This critical edition is designed for "teaching the conflicts" surrounding Mark Twain's classic novel. It reprints the 1885 text of the first American edition (with a portfolio of illustrations) along with critical essays representing major critical and cultural controversies surrounding the work. In addition to several new critical essays, the second edition includes an appendix on how to argue about the novel so that students may effectively ...              search for books academe, academic, adventures, american, anniversary, clueless, conflicts, contemporary, controversy, critical, criticism, edition, education, history, huckleberry, institutional, limited, literary, literature, obscures, persuasive, professing, profession, revitalize, schooling, society, teaching, tempest, twentieth, writing books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Cancer Medicine From Nature, The Herbal Cancer Formulas of Edgar Cayce ... we recommend Great book! When addressing controversy think of context. leave a comment home  impressum - about us