Description
Title: Why Read?
Author: Mark Edmundson
ISBN: 9781582346083
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Published: 2005
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 160
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
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-A PSLA Young Adult Top 40 (or so) non-fiction title 2004
In this important book, acclaimed author Mark Edmundson reconceives the value and promise of reading. He enjoins educators to stop offering up literature as facile entertainment and instead teach students to read in a way that can change their lives for the better. At once controversial and inspiring, this is a groundbreaking book written with the elegance and power to change the way we teach and read.
Praise for Why Read?:
“Edmundson is dead on target.”-Washington Post Book World “Edmundson’s an engaging teacher, earnest, knowledgeable, witty.”-Boston Globe “Why Read? makes passionate arguments for literature’s soul-making potential.”-Raleigh News and Observer “An engaging blend of social criticism, self-improvement wisdom, and appeal to fellow humanities writes with a rare combination of force and humility.”-Willamette Weekly
Mark Edmundson is NEH/Daniels Family Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Virginia. A prizewinning scholar, he is the author of Literature Against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida, and the widely praised memoir, Teacher: The One Who Made the Difference. He has written for the New Republic, the New York Times Magazine, the Nation, and Harper’s, where he is a contributing editor. Featured on Brian Lamb’s final Booknotes
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