In defense of reading : teaching literature in the twenty-first century /
Written by influential scholar-critic and award-winning Daniel R. Schwarz, In Defense of Reading: Teaching Literature in the Twenty-First Century is a passionate and joyful defense of the pleasures of reading. This stimulating book provides valuable insights for teachers and students on why we read...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2008.
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| Series: | Blackwell manifestos.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- The Odyssean reader or the odyssey of reading : of ourselves and our origins
- How we learn and what we learn from literary texts
- Towards a community of inquiry : is there a teacher in the class?
- Eating kosher ivy : Jews as literary intellectuals
- Professing literature in the twenty-first-century university
- Reconfiguring the profession : the (uncertain) path to a professorship.
