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"Through a professional story-teller's sometimes humorous commentary on culture and literature from The Odyssey on, Storytelling in the Digital Age suggests that literature is not an artifact to be studied but a living process. Often irreverent, crossing literary and scholarly l…
Through a professional story-teller's sometimes humorous commentary on culture and literature from The Odyssey on, Storytelling in the Digital Age suggests that literature is not an artifact to be studied but a living process. Often irreverent, crossing literary and scholarly li…
In this guide, two experienced school librarians provide a selection of books for librarians, teachers and parents. The Fiction Gateway is an essential resource that supports individual, group and social reading program and provides an instant guide to matching children's intere…
This collection of essays grew out of the "Reading Stephen King Conference" held at the University of Maine in 1996. Stephen King's books have become a lightning rod for the tensions around issues of including "mass market" popular literature in middle and high school English cl…
"Robert DiYanni's You Are What You Read is a guide for readers that seeks to restore the pleasures of reading lost in the digital age (and accounted for most eloquently by Sven Birkerts in The Gutenberg Elegies)"--.
How you can enrich your life by becoming a more skillful and engaged reader of literatureWe are what we read, according to Robert DiYanni. Reading may delight us or move us; we may read for instruction or inspiration. But more than this, in reading we discover ourselves. We gain…
"Robert DiYanni's You Are What You Read is a guide for readers that seeks to restore the pleasures of reading lost in the digital age (and accounted for most eloquently by Sven Birkerts in The Gutenberg Elegies)"--
"Robert DiYanni's You Are What You Read is a guide for readers that seeks to restore the pleasures of reading lost in the digital age (and accounted for most eloquently by Sven Birkerts in The Gutenberg Elegies)"--
"This book recreates in written form seventeen of the most popular, frankly personal and engaging lectures on literature given by the award-winning teacher Richard Jacobs, who has been working with students for forty years. This is a book aimed at students, starting their studie…
"This book recreates in written form seventeen of the most popular, frankly personal and engaging lectures on literature given by the award-winning teacher Richard Jacobs, who has been working with students for forty years. This is a book aimed at students, starting their studie…
This book recreates in written form seventeen of the most popular, frankly personal and engaging lectures on literature given by the award-winning teacher Richard Jacobs, who has been working with students for over forty years. This is a book written for students, whether starti…
In The Value of Literature, Rafe McGregor employs a unique approach--a combination of philosophical work on value theory and critical work on the relationship between form and content--to present a new argument for, and defence of, literary humanism. He argues that literature ha…