The Lives Of Literature by Lawrence Weinstein
Reading, Teaching, Knowing
Drawing on decades in the classroom, this reflective work argues that reading is a mode of knowing that reshapes perception, empathy, and self-understanding. Ranging across authors and eras, it shows how novels, plays, and poems cultivate ethical imagination, tolerance for ambiguity, and a deeper grasp of human suffering and desire. Part memoir and part manifesto, it challenges utilitarian views of education, contending that literary study matters not for vocational outcomes but for the existential transformations it enables in how we see others, the world, and ourselves.
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- 2022
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- American
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- Original Language
- English
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