Why literature? : the value of literary reading and what it means for teaching / by Cristina Vischer Bruns.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Continuum, 2011.Description: xiv, 159 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781441124654 (pbk.)
  • 1441124659 (pbk.)
  • 9781441125200 (hb)
  • 1441125205 (hb)
Other title:
  • Value of literary reading and what it means for teaching
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN 70 .B78 2011
Contents:
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.
'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.
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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.

'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.

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