Why Read?

Why Read?

Why Read?

  • Format: Paperback | 160 pages
  • Dimensions: 143 x 204 x 11mm | 154g
  • Publication date: 05 Sep 2005
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: New York, United States
  • Language: English
  • Edition Statement: Reprint
  • ISBN10: 1582346089
  • ISBN13: 9781582346083
  • Bestsellers rank: 404,947

-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 professors...Edmundson 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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