In defense of reading:teaching literature in the twenty-first century

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Schwarz Daniel R.
Published: Wiley-Blackwell,
Publisher Address: Chichester, U.K. Malden, MA
Publication Dates: 2008.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Blackwell manifestos
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Carrier Form: xvii, 198 p.: ; 23 cm.
ISBN: 9781405130981 (hbk. : alk. paper)
1405130989 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9781405130998 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1405130997 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Index Number: H319
CLC: H319
Call Number: H319/S411
Contents: Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-186) and index.
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.