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Why Read?: On the Uses of Great Writing - Hardcover

Edmundson, Mark

 
9781582344256: Why Read?: On the Uses of Great Writing

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A scholar and author of Teacher: The One Who Made a Difference argues that questions about the uses of literature are essential to a literary education and that reading not for only training and education, but also for pleasure, can change students' lives for the better. 25,000 first printing.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Mark Edmundson is a professor of English at the University of Virginia. A prizewinning scholar, he has published a number of works of literary and cultural criticism, including Literature Against Philosophy: Plato to Derrida as well as a memoir, Teacher: The One Who Made a Difference. He has also written for such publications as the New Republic, the New York Times Magazine, the Nation, and Harper's, where he is a contributing editor.


Mark Edmundson is NEH/Daniels Family Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Virginia.

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