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...
Written by influential scholar-critic and award-winning Daniel R. Schwarz, In Defense of Reading: Teaching Literature in the Twenty-First Century
"Narrative and Culture" draws together fourteen essays in which leading scholars discuss narrative texts and practices in a variety of media and genres, subjecting them to sustained cultural analysis. The essays cross national borders and historical periods as often and as easily as they traverse disciplinary boundaries, and they examine canonical fiction as well as postmodern media--photography, film, television. The primary subject of these pieces, notes Janice Carlisle, is "the relation between the telling of tales and the engagement of their tellers and listeners in the practices of...
"Narrative and Culture" draws together fourteen essays in which leading scholars discuss narrative texts and practices in a variety of media and ge...
Focusing on the work of Hardy, Lawrence, Conrad, Joyce, Forster and Woolf, this study is divided into two sections: the first shows how historical and contextual material is essential for developing powerful readings; the second discusses how new theory has transformed the way we read and think.
Focusing on the work of Hardy, Lawrence, Conrad, Joyce, Forster and Woolf, this study is divided into two sections: the first shows how historical and...
An attempt to define a humanistic and pluralistic ideology of reading which takes recent theory into account. By the same author as "The Humanistic Heritage: Critical Theories on the English Novel from James through Hillis Miller," and "Reading Joyce's Ulysses'."
An attempt to define a humanistic and pluralistic ideology of reading which takes recent theory into account. By the same author as "The Humanistic He...
An exploration of the modern European novel from a renowned English literature scholar Reading the Modern European Novel since 1900 is an engaging, in-depth examination of the evolution of the modern European novel. Written in Daniel R.
An exploration of the modern European novel from a renowned English literature scholar Reading the Modern European Novel since 1900 is an engaging, in...
