English Papers: A Teaching Life * * * AITHOR INSCRIBED * * *
Language: English
Published by Graywolf Press, Saint Paul, 1995
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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197 pp., xiv. Stated: "First Graywolf Printing, 1995"; this copy with a '2' in number line. Following the Introduction, Contents divided into 9 Chapters: (I) "Foreshadowings"; (II) "An Earthly Paradise"; (III) "At the Universities"; (IV) "Against the Grain: My Education within Harvard"; (V) "Hum 6, and Reuben Brower"; (VI) "Home Again"; (VII) "Changing Times: 1966-1972"; (VIII) "Reviewing Books, Reviewing the Profession"; (IX) "Autumn of a Teacher". Glossy Loden green dustwrapper not price-clipped ($22.95) with Title and Author name lettering in white across the top and bottom front cover, respectively; small color photo-illustration of a book being thumbed through at center front cover. Only cosmetic bump with resulting 5/8" micro ridge on dw surface (marginally evident to touch) and corresponding 1/8" dw tear on right edge about 1/4 way up from bottom right front cover corner (with nugatory bump to book edge itself): describes much worse than it is, but there you have it. NOW in Brodart mylar, which graciously forgives edge imbroglio. Inscribed by Author at top right ffep: "For Polly and Charlie Chatfield/ With warmest regards--Bill Pritchard". The Chatfields were significant leaders at the Commonwealth School in Boston, both Polly and Charlie. Pritchard had a distinguished teaching career at Amherst College. Despite blemish on cover edge: Gift-Giving Condition or you may need new friends.…
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- Title
- English Papers: A Teaching Life * * * AITHOR INSCRIBED * * *
- Author
- Pritchard, William H.
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press, Saint Paul
- Publication year
- 1995
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Signed
- Inscribed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1555972349
- ISBN 13
- 9781555972349
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 2nd Printing
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
--from English Papers
Well-known critic William H. Pritchard reviews his life as a passionate student and teacher of English in the classrooms of New England's Amherst College. Pritchard takes us from the era of the all-male college, where "conduct befitting a gentleman" was the only rule, through the political and social turmoil of the late 1960s, when the teaching of T.S. Eliot had to compete with the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Ironically, as Pritchard finds his own voice as a critic and teacher, he finds also that his literary and pedagogical aims seem increasingly marginal. The book's later chapters recount the fragmentation and diversification of both the student body and an English department.
This lucid account offers a much needed personal chronicle of the issues involved in the contemporary debate surrounding the teaching of English literature. Pritchard not only observes, but dramatizes the teaching situation, and from both sides of the desk. With a candid mix of apology and nostalgia, Pritchard describes and evaluates changing circumstances in both the professor and the profession.
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About the Author
William H. Pritchard is the Henry Clay Folger Professor of English at Amherst College.
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