Bruns, Cristina Vischer. <br/><br/>
Why literature? :  the value of literary reading and what it means for teaching / 
 Value of literary reading and what it means for teaching 
by Cristina Vischer Bruns. 
 - New York :  Continuum,  2011. 
 - xiv, 159 p. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-156) and index. 
<br/><br/>Why read literature? -- From words on paper to an object in transitional space : reading for the formative use of literature -- Recent conceptions of literary education and their potential impact on students' formative use of literature -- Toward a literacy education conducive to the formative use of literature. 
<br/><br/> '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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781441124654 (pbk.) 1441124659 (pbk.) 9781441125200 (hb) 1441125205 (hb) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Literature--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.<br/>Books and reading.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN 70  / .B78 2011