description: Through their work in the Massachusetts prison system, Waxler (English, U. of Massachusetts) and Trounstein (humanities, Middlesex Community College) discovered that a study of modern literature enhances readers' verbal skills through an engagement with language, opens experience to a multitude of perspectives, enriches our sense of human diversity, and makes us self-reflective and thoughtful. The anthology represents literary works they presented to criminal offenders to help them to see how stories can save us from the chaos of our lives. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
language: English
title: Changing Lives through Literature
titlecomplete: Changing Lives through Literature
publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr