In Defense of Reading: Teaching Literature in the Twenty-First Century

ISBN: 978-1-4051-3099-8

Paperback

216 pages

September 2008, Wiley-Blackwell

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Provides valuable insights into why and how we read
Addresses issues and problems in the contemporary university and offers insights into the future
Explores the life of the mind, the rewards and joys of committed teaching, and the relationship between teaching and scholarship in the contemporary university
Draws on the author's forty years of teaching experience
Following his long term commitment to close reading and historicism, Schwarz shows how the best literary criticism must both respect text and context
Contains insightful and important readings of a broad range of texts, including those by Joyce, Woolf, Conrad, Forster, Gordimer, and Spiegelman's Maus