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Schwarz, Daniel R.

In Defense of Reading: Teaching Literature in the Twenty-First Century

Schwarz, Daniel R. - In Defense of Reading: Teaching Literature in the Twenty-First Century, ebook

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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 and how we read when we embark on "the odyssey of reading."

  • Provides valuable insights into why and how we read

  • Addresses issues and problems in the contemporary university and offers insights into the future

  • Explores the life of the mind, the rewards and joys of committed teaching, and the relationship between teaching and scholarship in the contemporary university

  • Draws on the author's forty years of teaching experience

  • Following his long term commitment to close reading and historicism, Schwarz shows how the best literary criticism must both respect text and context

  • Contains insightful and important readings of a broad range of texts, including those by Joyce, Woolf, Conrad, Forster, Gordimer, and Spiegelman's Maus

Author(s)
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Publication year
2009
Language
en
Edition
1
Page amount
216 pages
Category
Litterary Studies
Format
Ebook
eISBN (PDF)
9781444304848

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