In Defense of Reading: Teaching Literature in the Twenty-First CenturyISBN: 978-1-4051-3098-1
Hardcover
216 pages
September 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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- 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 committed teaching, and the relationship between teaching and scholarship in the contemporary university
- Draws on the author's forty years of teaching experience
- Following his long term commitment to close reading and historicism, Schwarz shows how the best literary criticism must both respect text and context
- Contains insightful and important readings of a broad range of texts, including those by Joyce, Woolf, Conrad, Forster, Gordimer, and Spiegelman's Maus
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