Title: Why Literature?
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. Cristina Vischer Bruns offers a defense of the value of literature and suggests ways in which the problematic relationship between personal and academic reading may be overcome. - Publisher.
Subjects: Literature, study and teaching, Reading (higher education), Books and reading, Literature, Study and teaching (Higher), Philosophy