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Author Sumara, Dennis J., 1958-

Title Why reading literature in school still matters : imagination, interpretation, insight / Dennis J. Sumara.

Publication Info. Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum, 2002.

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 176 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Chapter 1 The Gradual Instant -- chapter 2 Learning How to Create Insight -- chapter 3 Interpreting Identities: Troubling Bodies -- chapter 4 Learning How To Be a Subject -- chapter 5 Interpreting Identities: Every Moment is Two Moments -- chapter 6 Learning How to Fall in Love -- chapter 7 Interpreting Identities: Enlarging the Space of the Possible -- chapter 8 Why Reading Literature in School Still Matters.
Summary Why Reading Literature in School Still Matters: Imagination, Interpretation, Insight explains how a reader's involvement with literary texts can create conditions for developing deep insight into human experience, and how teachers can develop these interpretive possibilities in school contexts. Developed from the author's many years of research, this book offers both a theoretical framework that draws from an interdisciplinary array of sources and many compelling and insightful examples of literary engagement of child, adolescent, and adult readers, as well as practical advice for teach.
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Subject Reading.
Reading.
Literature -- Study and teaching.
Literature -- Study and teaching.
Reader-response criticism.
Reader-response criticism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Sumara, Dennis J., 1958- Why reading literature in school still matters. Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum, 2002 0805842284 (DLC) 2002019866
ISBN 058541520X (electronic book)
9780585415208 (electronic book)
141060344X (Master e-book)
9781410603449 (Master e-book)
0805842284 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0805842292 (paper ; alkaline paper)
9780805842289