Screen LibraryIn 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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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Blackwell manifestos
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781444304831 |
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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. |
| Carrier Form: | xvii, 198 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-186) and index. |
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9781444304831 1444304836 9781444304848 (electronic bk.) 1444304844 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | PE68 |
| CLC: | H319 |
| 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. |