Description - In Defense of Reading by Daniel R. Schwarz
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
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