Why Literature?
Subtitle: the value of literary reading and what it means for teaching
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9781441124654
Description: 'Why Literature?' offers a conception of the value of literary reading that demonstrates its importance for psychological and social well-being, and works out the implications of that conception for how we teach literature in universities.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : The question and its importance; title: Why read literature?; title: Literary reading as instructive; title: Literary reading as a source of pleasure; title: The varied effects of literary experience and why they matter; title: The mechanism of literature's effects and its importance: literature as a transitional object; title: Literature, transitional space, and cultural contact; title: From words on paper to an object in transitional space: reading for the formative use of literature. Literary reading and the self's state in transitional space; title: Making visible the moves of the reader; title: Immersion and reflection: the two moves of the reading process in conflict; title: Sustaining the tension: immersion and reflection as interdependent; title: Recent conceptions of literary education and their potential impact on students' formative use of literature.; title: Literary education as the instructor's activity; title: Literary education in which students are actively involved; title: The challenge of the school context; title: Toward a literacy education conducive to the formative use of literature.; title: Principles for instruction; title: Making space for students; title: Ideas for practice