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Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A Dominican-born academic tells the story of how the Great Books transformed his life and why they have the power to speak to people of all backgrounds. What is the value of a liberal education? Traditionally characterized by a rigorous engagement with the classics of Western thought and literature, this approach to education is all but extinct in American universities, replaced by flexible distribution requirements and ever-narrower academic specialization....
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Literature departments are staffed by, and tend to be focused on turning out, "good" readers-attentive to nuance, aware of history, interested in literary texts as self-contained works. But the vast majority of readers are, to use Merve Emre's tongue-in-cheek term, "bad" readers. They read fiction and poetry to be moved, distracted, instructed, improved, engaged as citizens. How should we think about those readers, and what should we make of the structures,...
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