The lives of literature: reading, teaching, knowing
Why do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the answer is clear: literature allows us to become someone else. Literature changes us by giving us intimate access to an astonishing variety of other lives, experiences, and places across the ages. Reflecting on a lifetime of reading, teaching, and...
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| Summary: | Why do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the answer is clear: literature allows us to become someone else. Literature changes us by giving us intimate access to an astonishing variety of other lives, experiences, and places across the ages. Reflecting on a lifetime of reading, teaching, and writing, The Lives of Literature explores, with passion, humor, and whirring intellect, a professor's life, the thrills and traps of teaching, and, most of all, the power of literature to lead us to a deeper understanding of ourselves and the worlds we inhabit. As an identical twin, Weinstein experienced early the dislocation of being mistaken for another person-and of feeling that he might be someone other than he had thought. In vivid readings elucidating the classics of authors ranging from Sophocles to James Joyce and Toni Morrison, he explores what we learn by identifying with their protagonists, including those who, undone by wreckage and loss, discover that all their beliefs are illusions. Weinstein masterfully argues that literature's knowing differs entirely from what one ends up knowing when studying mathematics or physics or even history: by entering these characters' lives, readers acquire a unique form of knowledge-and come to understand its cost. In The Lives of Literature, a master writer and teacher shares his love of the books that he has taught and been taught by, showing us that literature matters because we never stop discovering who we are |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS vii Acknowledgments Introduction: The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing 1 і. My Voyage Out 26 2. Distance Learning: Yesterday and Today 54 3. The Three R’s 82 4. Literature and the Cost of Knowing 130 5. Literatures Map of Human Dimensions 224 6. Gaffes... and Worse 284 Conclusion: Delta Autumn 317 Bibliography ЗЗІ Index 333 V
Mixing passion and humor, a personal work of literary criticism that demonstrates how the greatest books illuminate our lives Why do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the answer is clear: literature al lows us to become someone else. Literature changes us by giving us intimate access to an astonishing variety of other lives, expe riences, and places across the ages. Reflect ing on a lifetime of reading, teaching, and writing, The Lives of Literature explores, with passion, humor, and whirring intellect, a professor’s life, the thrills and traps of teaching, and, most of all, the power of liter ature to lead us to a deeper understanding of ourselves and the worlds we inhabit. As an identical twin, Weinstein expe rienced early the dislocation of being mis taken for another person—and of feeling that he might be someone other than he had thought. In vivid readings elucidating the classics of authors ranging from Soph ocles to James Joyce and Toni Morrison, he explores what we learn by identifying with their protagonists, including those who, un done by wreckage and loss, discover that all their beliefs are illusions. Weinstein masterfully argues that literature’s know ing differs entirely from what one ends up knowing when studying mathematics or physics or even history: by entering these characters’ lives, readers acquire a unique form of knowledge—and come to under stand its cost. In The Lives of Literature, a master writer and teacher shares his love of the books that he has taught and been taught by, showing us that literature matters be cause we never
stop discovering who we are.
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CONTENTS vii Acknowledgments Introduction: The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing 1 і. My Voyage Out 26 2. Distance Learning: Yesterday and Today 54 3. The Three R’s 82 4. Literature and the Cost of Knowing 130 5. Literatures Map of Human Dimensions 224 6. Gaffes. and Worse 284 Conclusion: Delta Autumn 317 Bibliography ЗЗІ Index 333 V
Mixing passion and humor, a personal work of literary criticism that demonstrates how the greatest books illuminate our lives Why do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the answer is clear: literature al lows us to become someone else. Literature changes us by giving us intimate access to an astonishing variety of other lives, expe riences, and places across the ages. Reflect ing on a lifetime of reading, teaching, and writing, The Lives of Literature explores, with passion, humor, and whirring intellect, a professor’s life, the thrills and traps of teaching, and, most of all, the power of liter ature to lead us to a deeper understanding of ourselves and the worlds we inhabit. As an identical twin, Weinstein expe rienced early the dislocation of being mis taken for another person—and of feeling that he might be someone other than he had thought. In vivid readings elucidating the classics of authors ranging from Soph ocles to James Joyce and Toni Morrison, he explores what we learn by identifying with their protagonists, including those who, un done by wreckage and loss, discover that all their beliefs are illusions. Weinstein masterfully argues that literature’s know ing differs entirely from what one ends up knowing when studying mathematics or physics or even history: by entering these characters’ lives, readers acquire a unique form of knowledge—and come to under stand its cost. In The Lives of Literature, a master writer and teacher shares his love of the books that he has taught and been taught by, showing us that literature matters be cause we never
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