What Is English?

by Peter Elbow

Book Overview

What Is English? is Peter Elbow's challenging and very personal "picture of a profession that cannot define what it is." Written in a lively and accessible style, What Is English? contains Elbow's reflections on the 1987 English Coalition Conference and on its implications for the profession as a whole. Elbow identifies and tackles the major areas addressed by the conference: the question of what "English" means the place of theory in reading and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873523814
• ISBN13: 9780873523813
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Modern Language Association of America
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher