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

Acknowledgments.

1. The Odyssean Reader or the Odyssey of Reading: “Of Ourselves and of Our Origins”.

2. How We Learn and What We Learn from Literary Texts.

3. Towards a Community of Inquiry: Is There a Teacher in the Class?.

4. Eating Kosher Ivy: Jews as Literary Intellectuals.

5. Professing Literature in the Twenty-First-Century University.

6. Reconfiguring the Profession: The (Uncertain) Path to a Professorship.

Conclusion: The Future of Literary Studies.

Selective Bibliography.

Index