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 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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