{"product_id":"textual-power-book-robert-scholes-9780300033502","title":"Textual Power","description":"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\u003eScholes' 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\u003eThere 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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49526629925137,"sku":"GOR013725560","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50246739099921,"sku":"CIN0300033508G","price":4.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50346683236625,"sku":"CIN0300033508A","price":6.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50461257629969,"sku":"GOR013961152","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0300033508.jpg?v=1751101970","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/textual-power-book-robert-scholes-9780300033502","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}