{"product_id":"9780300037265-textual-power-reve","title":"Textual Power","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLiterary Theory and the Teaching of English\u003cbr\u003e“Robert Scholes has written an enviable book on the uses and abuses of literary theory in the teaching of literature.  One of [his] most forceful points…is that ‘literary theory’ is not something a teacher may either ‘use’ or not use, for teaching itself is an unavoidably theoretical activity.”—Gerald Graff, \u003ci\u003eNovel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Scholes’ emphasis in \u003ci\u003eTextual Power\u003c\/i\u003e is indicated by the book’s subtitle.  After a provocative analysis of disciplinary values and departmental tendencies…[he] proposes that ‘we must stop “teaching literature” and start studying texts’…His book is essential for college libraries.”—R.C. Gebhardt, \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“There is no issue more current, more relevant to the present scene, than the problem of pedagogy and its relation to contemporary theory. \u003ci\u003eTextual Power\u003c\/i\u003e is an important, provocative, and above all useful contribution to this discussion.”—Gregory L. Ulmer\u003cbr\u003e Robert Scholes, author of \u003ci\u003eStructuralism in Literature \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Semiotics and Interpretation \u003c\/i\u003eamong other books, is Alumni-Alumnae University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Brown University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55211210998134,"sku":"9780300037265","price":23.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_8324597_7877_20241024054501.jpg?v=1738245088","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780300037265-textual-power-reve","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}