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'Why Literature?' offers a conception of the value of literary reading that demonstrates its importance for psychological and social well-being, and works out the implications of that conception for how we teach literature in universities. Cristina Vischer Bruns offers a defense of the value of literature and suggests ways in which the problematic relationship between personal and academic reading may be overcome. - Publisher.
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Why Literature?: The Value of Literary Reading and What It Means for Teaching
2011, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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2011, Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
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Why Literature?: the value of literary reading and what it means for teaching
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Table of Contents
Introduction : The question and its importance
Why read literature?
Literary reading as instructive
Literary reading as a source of pleasure
The varied effects of literary experience and why they matter
The mechanism of literature's effects and its importance: literature as a transitional object
Literature, transitional space, and cultural contact
From words on paper to an object in transitional space: reading for the formative use of literature. Literary reading and the self's state in transitional space
Making visible the moves of the reader
Immersion and reflection: the two moves of the reading process in conflict
Sustaining the tension: immersion and reflection as interdependent
Recent conceptions of literary education and their potential impact on students' formative use of literature.
Literary education as the instructor's activity
Literary education in which students are actively involved
The challenge of the school context
Toward a literacy education conducive to the formative use of literature.
Principles for instruction
Making space for students
Ideas for practice
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