Why Read? Free Download PDF By Mark Edmundson
Title | : | Why Read? |
Author | : | Mark Edmundson |
Format | : | Paperback |
Page | : | 160 pages |
ISBN | : | 1582346089 |
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 grou 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 professorsEdmundson 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 Also available HC 1 58234 425 6 ISBN 13 978 158234 425 21.95
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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 re
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