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Gerald Graff: The Language Of Literary Criticism

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The Language of Literary Criticism Gerald Graff, a Stanford educated professor of English at the University of Illinois, hasn't always held a predisposition towards the Liberal Arts. As a young boy he was unable to grasp any meaning from books he was forced into. Growing up in an ethnically diverse Chicago neighborhood with working class counterparts, Graff found his distaste for literature a side effect of being potential bully bait. As he approached adulthood however, he leaned into literature as a means of avoiding his disinterest in other disciplines such as law or medicine. During his time at the University of Illinois and later years at the University of Chicago, Graff continued his ongoing battle with literary relevance he fought little
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