How Literature Helps Us to Understand Ourselves and the World
by
Professor Robert P. Waxler
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
The Risk of Reading is a defense of the idea that deep and close readings of literature can help us to understand ourselves and the world around us. It explores some of the meaning and implications of modern life through the deep reading of significant books. Waxler argues that we need "fiction"...