In defense of reading
Subtitle: teaching literature in the twenty-first century
By: Daniel R. Schwarz.
Series: Blackwell manifestos
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.; Wiley-Interscience; Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781405130981; 9781405130998
Subjects: English philology -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States; Literature -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States; Books and reading -- Psychological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The odyssean reader or the odyssey of reading : ourselves and our origins; title: How we learn and what we learn from literary texts; title: Towards a community of inquiry : is there a teacher in the class?; title: Eating kosher ivy : Jews as literary intellectuals; title: Professing literature in the twenty-first century university; title: Reconfiguring the profession : the (uncertain) path to a professorship.