TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bruns,Cristina Vischer
TI  - Why literature?: the value of literary reading and what it means for teaching 
SN  - 9781441124654 (pbk.)
AV  - PN 70 .B78 2011
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Continuum
KW  - Literature
KW  - Study and teaching (Higher)
KW  - United States
KW  - Books and reading
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-156) and index; 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
N2  - '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
ER  -