In Defense of Reading - 9781405130998
Un libro in lingua di Schwarz Daniel R. edito da Blackwell Pub, 2008
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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
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: In Defense of Reading
- Sottotitolo: Teaching Literature in the Twenty-first Century
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Schwarz Daniel R.
- Editore: Blackwell Pub
- Collana: Blackwell Pub (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 29 Settembre '08
- Genere: LITERARY CRITICISM
- Argomenti : English philology Study and teaching (Higher) United States Literature Study and teaching (Higher) United States Books and reading Psychological aspects
- Pagine: 198
- Dimensioni mm: 228 x 158 x 25
- ISBN-10: 1405130997
- EAN-13: 9781405130998