In defense of reading:teaching literature in the twenty-first century
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Published: |
Wiley-Blackwell,
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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. |