Schwarz In Defense of Reading

Teaching Literature in the Twenty-First Century
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-0484-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Manifestos

Written by influential scholar-critic and award-winning Daniel R.Schwarz, In Defense of Reading: Teaching Literature in theTwenty-First Century is a passionate and joyful defense of thepleasures of reading. This stimulating book provides valuableinsights for teachers and students on why we read and how we readwhen we embark on "the odyssey of reading."
* Provides valuable insights into why and how we read
* Addresses issues and problems in the contemporary universityand offers insights into the future
* Explores the life of the mind, the rewards and joys ofcommitted teaching, and the relationship between teaching andscholarship in the contemporary university
* Draws on the author's forty years of teaching experience
* Following his long term commitment to close reading andhistoricism, Schwarz shows how the best literary criticism mustboth respect text and context
* Contains insightful and important readings of a broad range oftexts, including those by Joyce, Woolf, Conrad, Forster, Gordimer,and Spiegelman's Maus

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schwarz, Daniel R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
Acknowledgments.
1. The Odyssean Reader or the Odyssey of Reading: "OfOurselves and of Our Origins".
2. How We Learn and What We Learn from Literary Texts.
3. Towards a Community of Inquiry: Is There a Teacher in theClass?.
4. Eating Kosher Ivy: Jews as Literary Intellectuals.
5. Professing Literature in the Twenty-First-CenturyUniversity.
6. Reconfiguring the Profession: The (Uncertain) Path to aProfessorship.
Conclusion: The Future of Literary Studies.
Selective Bibliography.
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel R. Schwarz is Frederic J. Whiton Professor of Englishand Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University,where he has taught since 1968. He is the recipient of Cornell'sCollege of Arts and Sciences Russell Award for DistinguishedTeaching. Schwarz has published numerous books, includingReading the Modern British and Irish Novel 1890-1934 (2004),Broadway Boogie Woogie: Damon Runyan and the Making of New YorkCity Culture (2003), Rereading Conrad (2001),Imagining the Holocaust (1999), Reconfiguring Modernism:Explorations in the Relationship Between Modern Art and ModernLiterature (1997), and Reading Joyce's Ulysses (1987;new ed. 2004).