Cristina Vischer Bruns offers a defense of the value of literature and suggests ways in which the problematic relationship between personal and academic reading may be overcome
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Cristina Vischer Bruns offers a defense of the value of literature and suggests ways in which the problematic relationship between personal and academic reading may be overcome
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface - Situating the Questioner; Introduction - the Question and Its Importance; 1 Why Read Literature?; Literary Reading as Instructive; Literary Reading as a Source of Pleasure; The Varied Effects of Literary Experience and Why They Matter; Shock; Recognition; Enchantment; The Mechanism of Literature's Effects and Its Importance: Literature as a Transitional Object; Literature, Transitional Space, and Cultural Contact; 2 From Words on Paper to an Object in Transitional Space: Reading for the Formative Use of Literature
Literary Reading and the Self's State in Transitional SpaceMaking Visible the Moves of the Reader; My own experiences as a reader . . . and a teacher; Jeffrey Wilhelm's remedial readers; Immersion and Reflection: The Two Moves of the Reading Process in Conflict; The role of immersive reading; When reflective reading undermines immersive reading; Sustaining the Tension: Immersion and Reflection as Interdependent; 3 Recent Conceptions of Literary Education and Their Potential Impact on Students' Formative Use of Literature; Literary Education as the Instructor's Activity
Literary Education in Which Students Are Actively InvolvedLiterary education that prioritizes the ideological critique of texts; Literary education that prioritizes students' encounters with texts; The Challenge of the School Context; 4 Toward a Literary Education Conducive to the Formative Use of Literature; Principles for Instruction; The priority of immersion in a text; Beginning with students' experience of texts; Reflection and analysis in a supporting role; Attending to culture; The complication of casting students as co-inquirers; Making Space for Students
What students bring to the classA receptive environment for students' contributions; Ideas for Practice; Works Cited; Index
