-A PSLA Young Adult Top 40 (or so) non-fiction title 2004
In this important book, acclaimed author Mark Edmundson reconceives the
value and promise of reading. He enjoins educators to stop offering up
literature as facile entertainment and instead teach students to read in
a way that can change their lives for the better. At once controversial
and inspiring, this is a groundbreaking book written with the elegance
and power to change the way we teach and read.
Praise for Why Read?:
Edmundson is dead on target.-Washington Post Book World Edmundson's an
engaging teacher, earnest, knowledgeable, witty.-Boston Globe Why
Read? makes passionate arguments for literature's soul-making
potential.-Raleigh News and Observer An engaging blend of social
criticism, self-improvement wisdom, and appeal to fellow humanities
professors...Edmundson writes with a rare combination of force and
humility.-Willamette Weekly
Mark Edmundson is NEH/Daniels Family Distinguished Teaching Professor at
the University of Virginia. A prizewinning scholar, he is the author of
Literature Against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida, and the widely praised
memoir, Teacher: The One Who Made the Difference. He has written for
the New Republic, the New York Times Magazine, the Nation, and
Harper's, where he is a contributing editor. Featured on Brian Lamb's
final Booknotes
Also available: HC 1-58234-425-6 ISBN 13: 978-158234-425- $21.95
