By Daniel R. Schwarz
ISBN-10: 1405130989
ISBN-13: 9781405130981
Written by way of influential scholar-critic and award-winning Daniel R. Schwarz, In protection of studying: educating Literature within the Twenty-First Century is a passionate and cheerful protection of the pleasures of studying. This stimulating ebook offers important insights for lecturers and scholars on why we learn and the way we learn after we embark on "the odyssey of reading."Provides worthwhile insights into why and the way we readAddresses matters and difficulties within the modern college and gives insights into the futureExplores the lifetime of the brain, the rewards and joys of dedicated educating, and the connection among instructing and scholarship within the modern universityDraws at the author's 40 years of educating experienceFollowing his long-term dedication to shut studying and historicism, Schwarz indicates how the simplest literary feedback needs to either admire textual content and contextContains insightful and significant readings of a huge variety of texts, together with these by means of Joyce, Woolf, Conrad, Forster, Gordimer, and Spiegelman's Maus
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Quest for understanding. Our quest for understanding is closely related to the diachronic, linear, temporal activity of reading. ” In writing, as opposed to speech, the speaker cannot correct, intrude, or qualify; he cannot use gestures or adjust the delivery of his discourse. Because in writing we lack the speaker’s help, we must make our own adjustments in our reading. As Paul Ricoeur notes, “What the text says now matters more than what the author meant to say, and every exegesis unfolds its procedures within the circumference of a meaning that has broken its moorings to the psychology of its author” (Ricoeur 1984, 191).
Indd 33 6/19/2008 6:07:00 PM The Odyssean Reader or the Odyssey of Reading with its continuing interest in certain themes and problems such as adult sexual love, help create and recreate its literary canon? XIII. Conclusion: Professing Reading within the University and Beyond As humanists, we need to look beyond the academy and take part in larger discussions about what we read and how and why we read. We need to articulate why the study of literature matters. We need to develop a rhetoric of engagement and to acknowledge that the discussion of values—how they are shaped by history and how by individual obsessions, compulsions, and dimly acknowledged needs—is not only literature’s subject but also the reason many of us read.
Indd 11 6/19/2008 6:06:58 PM The Odyssean Reader or the Odyssey of Reading imagined world. We need to be open to hearing the often unsophisticated and unironical voice of pain, angst, and fear. III. Reading as a Culture What we read as a culture tells us who we are as American people and is therefore an ingredient of cultural studies. Various ethnic and religious subgroups read different books. Cultural conflict is often enacted in a battle of the books. Reading makes us better citizens. What we read in biography, history, and fiction not only teaches us about diverse politicians and their illusions, delusions, accomplishments, and vanity, but also enables us to see cultural conflict.
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