The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing

by Arnold Weinstein

Book Overview

A passionate, wry, and personal book about how the greatest works of literature illuminate our lives

Why do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the answer is clear: literature allows us to become someone else. Literature changes us by giving us intimate access to an astonishing variety of other lives, experiences, and places across the ages. Reflecting on a lifetime of reading, teaching, and writing, The Lives of Literature...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691177309
• ISBN13: 9780691177304
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.4"