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Author : Jean R. Trounstine
Publisher : University of Michigan Press ELT
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Finding a Voice written by Jean R. Trounstine and published by University of Michigan Press ELT. This book was released on 2005 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy and practices of an alternative sentencing program
Author : Robert P. Waxler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Changing Lives Through Literature written by Robert P. Waxler and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the members of the group, who had been pushed to the margins and refused a voice, began to rediscover their identity, the idea for this anthology was born." "This book will arouse interest in anyone involved in, or moved by, the "Changing Lives through Literature" program. It is truly a valuable gift for alternative learners: criminal offenders in or out of prison, displaced workers, and any reader failed by the traditional educational system."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Arnold Weinstein
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691254796
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The Lives of Literature written by Arnold Weinstein and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passionate, wry, and personal book about how the greatest works of literature illuminate our lives 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.
Author : Karen Swallow Prior
Publisher : Brazos Press
ISBN 13 : 1493415468
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)
Download or read book On Reading Well written by Karen Swallow Prior and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ★ Publishers Weekly starred review A Best Book of 2018 in Religion, Publishers Weekly Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue, says acclaimed author Karen Swallow Prior. In this book, she takes readers on a guided tour through works of great literature both ancient and modern, exploring twelve virtues that philosophers and theologians throughout history have identified as most essential for good character and the good life. Covering authors from Henry Fielding to Cormac McCarthy, Jane Austen to George Saunders, and Flannery O'Connor to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Prior explores some of the most compelling universal themes found in the pages of classic books, helping readers learn to love life, literature, and God through their encounters with great writing. The book includes end-of-chapter reflection questions geared toward book club discussions, original artwork throughout, and a foreword by Leland Ryken. The hardcover edition was named a Best Book of 2018 in Religion by Publishers Weekly. "[A] lively treatise on building character through books.'"--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Author : Mitchell Kalpakgian
Publisher : TAN Books
ISBN 13 : 1618906739
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (189 download)
Download or read book The Mysteries of Life in Children's Literature written by Mitchell Kalpakgian and published by TAN Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FAIRY TALES AND MYTHS have enriched childhood for centuries. In between “Once upon a time” and “happily ever after” we embark on adventures that seem an eternity away from our everyday lives. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. In The Mysteries of Life in Children’s Literature, journey through a treasury of beloved fables and folk tales and discover the wisdom hiding within. In an age that rejects moral absolutes, children’s literature restores the meaning of good and evil, beautiful and ugly, normal and abnormal—and helps us see the nature of our world more clearly than we ever have before.
Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402053312
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Temporality in Life As Seen Through Literature written by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-09 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a wealth of papers in its pages, this book examines that fundamental of human philosophy, the relationship between human beings and time. Having the human subject – the creator – at its center, literature is essentially engaged in temporality whether that of the mind or of the world of life through the creative process of writing, stage directing, or the reader’s and viewer’s reception. This text examines, among others, the work of Proust and Kafka.
Author : Robert Scholes
Publisher : Bedford/St. Martin's
ISBN 13 : 9780312248796
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (487 download)
Download or read book Text Book written by Robert Scholes and published by Bedford/St. Martin's. This book was released on 2001-12-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for literature-based writing courses, Text Book introduces students to the idea that literary texts and ordinary spoken and written language share many of the same features. By providing imaginative methods and unique assignments that let students work with those features in their writing, Text Book involves students in the processes of exploring literature creatively, not simply consuming and analyzing it, helping them understand literature "from the inside out."
Author : Susan Yelavich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351777963
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book Thinking Design Through Literature written by Susan Yelavich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deploys literature to explore the social lives of objects and places. The first book of its kind, it embraces things as diverse as escalators, coins, skyscrapers, pottery, radios, and robots, and encompasses places as various as home, country, cities, streets, and parks. Here, fiction, poetry, and literary non-fiction are mined for stories of design, which are paired with images of contemporary architecture and design. Through the work of authors such as César Aires, Nicholson Baker, Lydia Davis, Orhan Pamuk, and Virginia Woolf, this book shows the enormous influence that places and things exert in the world.
Author : Katherine Paterson
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573626685
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (266 download)
Download or read book The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks written by Katherine Paterson and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Miller
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811201087
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Books in My Life written by Henry Miller and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1969 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique work, Henry Miller gives an utterly candid and self-revealing account of the reading he did during his formative years.
Author : Linda Anstendig
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780023035654
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Writing Through Literature written by Linda Anstendig and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only book of its kind to date, this process-oriented book emphasizes writing through literature, offering accessible and multicultural reading selections. Helping users become better writers and readers through their study of literature, it contains writing assignment sequences wrapped around 17 thematically arranged "clusters" consisting of 5 -- 10 readings apiece. Integrating writing assignments throughout the book to help users better understand and appreciate the literature, it includes suggestions for writing before and after readings in each chapter and cluster, and poses questions following each individual work which probe the literary techniques of the work.
Author : Bill Roorbach
Publisher : Story Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Writing Life Stories written by Bill Roorbach and published by Story Press. This book was released on 1998-07-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to writing stories, memoirs, and personal essays that includes information on remembering distant memories; making real people into characters; using public records, interviews, and diaries to create a believable story; and other related topics.
Author : Peter Carnavas
Publisher : Kane/Miller Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781610673471
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (734 download)
Download or read book Jessica's Box written by Peter Carnavas and published by Kane/Miller Book Publishers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in Australia by New Frontier Publishing in 2008.
Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780792364085
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (64 download)
Download or read book The Poetry of Life in Literature written by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2000-09-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry of life in literature and through literature, and the vast territory in between - as vast as human life itself - where they interact and influence each other, is the nerve of human existence. Whether we are aware of it or not, we are profoundly dissatisfied with the stark reality of life's swift progress onward, and the enigmatic and irretrievable meaning of the past. And so we dramatise our existence, probing deeply for a lyrical and heartfelt yet universally valid sense of our experience. It is in great works of literature that we seek those hidden springs that so move us. It is in honour of this search that this collection focuses on the creative imagination at work in literature and aesthetics.
Author : Taylor Stoehr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317262581
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Changing Lives written by Taylor Stoehr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changing Lives recounts the experiences of a dozen men on probation in Massachusetts who took classes for three months to read and talk about great works of literature. The men explored the writings of Malcolm X, Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov, amongst others. In these writings the men discovered many issues relating to their own lives, such as substance abuse, family breakdown, poverty and racism. The lessons create a safe space for reflection and earnest conversation, in which the students no longer have to bluff or be cool, guarded, or evasive. And because the classroom puts them on equal footing with authority figures - teachers, probation officers and even judges - a new social awareness begins to emerge. Changing Lives shows how reawakening moral consciousness and a fresh commitment to society is essential if probationers are not to cycle endlessly through the limbo of street life and jail time.
Author : Meghan Marie Hammond
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317817362
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Rethinking Empathy through Literature written by Meghan Marie Hammond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, a growing field of empathy studies has started to emerge from several academic disciplines, including neuroscience, social psychology, and philosophy. Because literature plays a central role in discussions of empathy across disciplines, reconsidering how literature relates to "feeling with" others is key to rethinking empathy conceptually. This collection challenges common understandings of empathy, asking readers to question what it is, how it works, and who is capable of performing it. The authors reveal the exciting research on empathy that is currently emerging from literary studies while also making productive connections to other areas of study such as psychology and neurobiology. While literature has been central to discussions of empathy in divergent disciplines, the ways in which literature is often thought to relate to empathy can be simplistic and/or problematic. The basic yet popular postulation that reading literature necessarily produces empathy and pro-social moral behavior greatly underestimates the complexity of reading, literature, empathy, morality, and society. Even if empathy were a simple neurological process, we would still have to differentiate the many possible kinds of empathy in relation to different forms of art. All the complexities of literary and cultural studies have still to be brought to bear to truly understand the dynamics of literature and empathy.
Author : Martha C. Pennington
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351809067
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Why Reading Books Still Matters written by Martha C. Pennington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together strands of public discourse about valuing personal achievement at the expense of social values and the impacts of global capitalism, mass media, and digital culture on the lives of children, this book challenges the potential of science and business to solve the world’s problems without a complementary emphasis on social values. The selection of literary works discussed illustrates the power of literature and human arts to instill such values and foster change. The book offers a valuable foundation for the field of literacy education by providing knowledge about the importance of language and literature that educators can use in their own teaching and advocacy work.
