Reclaiming Literature is designed to give its readers the
capability to grasp a novel adequately enough to teach it. Seven
classic American novels are examined: "Moby-Dick," "The Portrait of
a Lady," "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," "The Turn of the ScreW,"
"The Red Badge of Courage," "A Farewell to Arms," and "The Catcher
in the Rye." Each of these novels has brought forth from its many
readers a multitude of contradictory responses, not simply to
different aspects of the novel, but to the most basic experience it
conveys.
Teachers face an intensifying need to present these works to
their classes and resolve that critical confusion. When they turn
for help to literary theorists, the confusion is compounded.
Theorists have moved away from the primary text to dwell upon and
give value to each reader's response to that text, however variant
or contradictory it might be. This approach ignores, if not denies,
the author's specifically crafted accomplishment. Glasser shows how
teachers and general readers can reclaim each literary work from
the current critical confusion. To grasp each of these novels
firmly enough to teach it, teachers must focus upon each author in
the act of practicing the fiction writer's craft. This is essential
reading for teachers of literature from secondary school onward,
and for general readers of literature.
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